The TTAB affirmed two refusals to register the mark SEVEN DEVILS for "Wine related accessories, namely, foil cutters for wine bottles in Class 8; wine openers; wine aerators; pouring spouts for ...
[This guest post was authored by John L. Strand, Shareholder in the Trademark and Litigation Groups at Wolf Greenfield]. Here we have a consolidated proceeding between Shadi.com, part of Ampak ...
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 the Board affirms, ...
The USPTO refused to register the mark CHALLEN, in the stylized form shown below, for various musical instruments, finding the mark to be primarily merely a surname under Section 2(e)(4). ...
A divided Board panel reversed a Section 2(e)(1) refusal to register the mark LEDGERDOMAIN, in standard character form, finding it to be not merely descriptive of software and services in ...
The USPTO refused to register the mark MONFRÈRE FASHION for "Denim jackets; Denim jeans; Denim pants; Jeans; Men's and women's jackets, coats, trousers, vests; Pants; Shirts; Coats of denim; Denims; Jacket," ...
On October 20, 2015, Striatum Ventures B.V. (a Netherlands company) obtained a registration for the mark ZUPR in the word-plus-design form shown below, for software and various business services, via the ...
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (Tee-Tee-Ā-BEE) has scheduled two oral hearings for the month of March 2020. The hearings will be held in the East Wing of the Madison ...
In a nonprecedential ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld the TTAB's decision of April 4, 2018 [TTABlogged here], ruling that substantial evidence supported the Board's finding ...
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 ...