Fundamental Capital opposed an application to register FUNDAMENTAL DASHBOARD for financial analysis and research services, claiming likelihood of confusion with its registered mark FUNDAMENTAL CAPITAL for financial investment services. The ...
By my estimation, somewhere around 80-85% of all Section 2(e)(1) mere descriptiveness refusals that reach the TTAB are affirmed on appeal. Well, here are three appeals that were decided in ...
Today in In re Nuvasive, __ F.3d __ , __ , slip op. at 8-13 (Fed. Cir. 2016)(Wallach, J.), in the process of reversing a PTAB ruling of obviousness under ...
The USPTO refused to register the mark shown below for "Restaurant and catering services; restaurant services featuring middle-eastern cuisine" [KABOB, ORIGINAL, and 1976 disclaimed], finding the mark likely to cause ...
The latest list of top patent cases at the Supreme Court is attached. New to this list are certiorarisleepers that have a significant chance of review, Google v. Arendi (obviousness ...
Today in Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. v. Apple Inc., __ U.S. __ (2016), opinion below, Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., 786 F.3d 983 (Fed. Cir. 2015)( Prost, C.J.), ...
Breaking its string of Section 2(e)(4) affirmances, the TTAB reversed a refusal to register the mark VEASY for "plant and flower seeds; live plants and flowers; live tropical plants, orchids ...
Last week in Miller v. Department of Justice, __ F.3d __, 2016 WL 7030359 (Fed. Cir. 2016)(Stoll, J.),a thorough exposition was made of an MSPB legal issue in the principal ...
Try your luck on this Section 2(d) bar. The USPTO refused registration of the mark LUCKY SUSHI BAR for bar and restaurant services [SUSHI BAR disclaimed], finding a likelihood of ...
International patent exhaustion is on the Supreme Court docket for the current Term! Today the Supreme Court granted certiorari to review both “Questions Presented” by the Petitioner in Impression Products, ...