The Trademark Reporter has published its latest Annual Review of U.S. Trademark Cases: "The Seventy-Second Year of Administration of the Lanham Act of 1946," by Theodore H. Davis, Jr. and ...
In this Section 2(d) opposition to registration of the mark RICA SULA for snack chips, Applicant Lacteos de Honduras S.A. counterclaimed for cancellation of Opposer Industria Sula's two pleaded registrations for ...
Swan Song, Inc. opposed an application to register the mark SWAN SONG AUDIO for "“Consumer electronic products, namely, audio amplifiers, audio speakers, audio receivers, electrical audio and speaker cables and connectors, audio decoders, ...
In this concurrent use proceeding, Hanscomb Consulting, Inc. ("HCI") sought a concurrent use registration for the mark HANSCOMB CONSULTING & Design (shown below) for various business services, covering the entire United ...
[This guest post was authored by John L. Strand, Shareholder in the Trademark and Litigation Groups at Wolf Greenfield]. Poly-America and API own competing Supplemental Registrations for trade dress consisting ...
In what boiled down to an dispute over ownership of the mark, the Board granted a petition for cancellation of Respondent Michael Lajtay's registration for the mark HOLE IN ONE for ...
In a three-page Order, the Board ruled that a party domiciled in Canada, despite the appearance of an authorized Canadian trademark attorney/agent on its behalf, must appoint a qualified attorney ...
It has been said that one can predict the outcome of a Section 2(d) appeal 95% of the time just by looking at the marks and the involved goods or ...
[This guest post was authored by John L. Strand, Shareholder in the Trademark and Litigation Groups at Wolf Greenfield]. Applicant Manimal, LLC sought to register the mark MANIMAL for a wide ...
In a rare Section 2(e)(3) decision, the Board affirmed a refusal to register the proposed mark EMPORIO ITALIA for "bed sheets; pillow cases; comforters; bedspreads," finding the mark to be primarily geographically ...