A divided TTAB panel affirmed a Section 2(e)(4) refusal of the mark ADLON for various goods and services, including "hospitality industry services," finding it to be primarily merely a surname. ...
Supposedly one can predict the outcome of a Section 2(d) case 95% of the time just by looking at the marks and the goods. In two of these four recent ...
Lame Duck PTO Director Michelle K. Lee’s issuance of a Federal Register notice proposing a $ 710 million dollar PTO fee increase runs squarely, head on, into the position taken ...
Further to the recent note on the Global Dossier Initiative and the possibility to amend Rule 56(a), one seeming drawback had been that it is difficult for an American Examiner ...
Today in Merck Sharp and Dohme Ltd. v. Shionogi & Co Ltd., [2016] EWHC 2989 (Pat)(High Court 2016)(Arnold, J.), the High Court invalidated Shionogi’s European Patent (UK) No. 1 422 218. This patent ...
In an email responsive to the Nov. 23rd post (attached below), PTO official Patrick Ross has correctly noted that “Roundtable 2 [is] being held December 5, 2016, *** [in] Stanford, ...
According to the New York Times (quoted below) President-Elect Trump is expected to nominate a new Commerce Secretary and Deputy Commerce Secretary. This will then open the door to the ...
Reports indicate that the EPO Board of Appeals is to be moved from its downtown Munich location along the Isar River seven miles away to Haar. Next Door Haar: The ...
The Global Dossier Initiative is now up and running! It provides the American (or a counterpart overseas) Patent Examiner with the full prior art citations from parallel prosecution files of participating ...
Steve Penner was a patent attorney who was a partner at Lathrop & Gage in Boulder. He earned his legal degree at the University of Colorado, following an earlier career ...