The TTAB recently ruled on the appeals from three Section 2(e)(1) mere descriptiveness refusals summarized below. Let's see how you do with them, keeping in mind that last year the ...
[This guest post was written by Kira-Khanh McCarthy, a law clerk in the Trademark Group at Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.]. Applicant Driven Golf, Inc. made a bogey on its ...
Undefeated boxing champion Floyd Mayweather, Jr., suffered a TTAB t.k.o. (trademark knock-out) in his bout to register the phrase PAST PRESENT FUTURE for "T-shirts." Applicant argued, inter alia, that "consumers recognize the PAST PRESENT ...
[This guest post was written by Kira-Khanh McCarthy, a law clerk in the Trademark Group at Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.]. The USPTO held an online public meeting of the ...
In yet another failure-to-function ruling, the Board affirmed refusals to register the term .SUCKS in the stylized form shown below, as a service mark for "Domain registry operator services related to ...
The Board upheld a failure-to-function refusal of TEXAS LOVE for "hats, shirts," finding that the phrase "only serves as an expression of a concept or sentiment, and is widely used by ...
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (Tee-Tee-Ā-Bee) has scheduled six (VI) oral hearings for the month of November 2020. The hearings will be held via video. Briefs and other papers ...
Here is a link to Ted Davis's 2020 "Annual Review of U.S. Federal Case Law and TTAB Developments." Thank you, Ted, for permitting me to post this link. As a ...
The CAFC affirmed the TTAB's decision in SFM, LLC v. Corcamore, LLC, 129 USPQ2d 1072 (TTAB 2018) [TTABlogged here], upholding the Board's entry of judgment as a sanction against Corcamore, LLC due ...
The Board sustained this opposition to registration of GS GEMS STYLE HAIR BOTOX for various non-medicated hair care products [STYLE HAIR BOTOX disclaimed], finding confusion likely with the famous mark BOTOX for pharmaceutical preparations, ...