I once heard a TTAB judge say that the outcome of most Section 2(d) likelihood of confusion cases may be predicted just by looking at the marks and the identified ...
Recently, this writer published a paper showing that the grace period may fail to save an inventor who publishes before filing. This is because the state of the art to ...
Christopher Larkin has been appointed to the position of Administrative Trademark Judge at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. His appointment brings the total number of TTAB judges to 26. ...
A tip of the fedora to FOTTABlog Erik M. Pelton, who once again provides a report (here) on the latest meeting of the Trademark Public Advisory Committee (a/k/a TPAC). Note ...
What is the impact of an inventor’s publication of his invention before filing which may be excused as “prior art” under the grace period? Under the literal wording of amended ...
In are rare decision discussing the affirmative defense of unclean hands, the Board granted a petition for cancellation of a registration for the mark AACHI AAPPAKADAI & Design for "restaurant ...
If you are not a Twitter subscriber, you missed these recent TTABlog tweets and re-tweets @TTABlog. Gainesville, Florida Massachusetts district court denies preliminary injunction motion in HEALTH NEW ENGLAND trademark ...
The USPTO refused registration of the mark PROBOKNOW, in standard character form, deeming it merely descriptive of "Operating an online marketplace for providers and consumers of free and affordable legal ...
In November 2015, the Board dismissed a cancellation petition brought by NH Beach Pizza LLC because NH failed to prove standing. [TTABlogged here]. NH then filed a new petition for ...
Mel Williams was one of the many leading patent attorneys to graduate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the George Washington Law School. He served for twenty-five years at United Technologies ...