The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (Tee-Tee-Ā-Bee) has scheduled seven (7) oral hearings for the month of November 2019. The hearings will be held in the East Wing of the ...
Weigel Stores applied to register the mark shown first below, for "Processed, ready to eat foods, namely, sandwiches, wrap sandwiches, pizza and pastries" and for "restaurant services," but QuikTrip West ...
In a thorough, 39-page opinion, the Board affirmed a Section 2(e)(5) functionality refusal of the packaging designs shown below for "electrical cables and wire." The Board found that numerous features ...
Northeastern Law School and the Boston Intellectual Property Patent Law Society (BPLA) will host a panel/roundtable discussion entitled "The Original Sin of Trademark Law: Failure to Function" on November 5th from ...
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina dismissed Princeton Vanguard's civil action seeking review of the TTAB's September 6, 2017 decision finding PRETZEL CRISPS to be generic ...
Marty Schwimmer and Yours Truly co-authored an article in the Autumn 2019 issue of World Trademark Review, entitled "U.S. Law Inches Towards Protecting Trademark Reputation Without Use." [pdf here]. Trademark reputation ...
[This guest post was written by Stephanie Stella, an associate in the Trademark Group at Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.]. The USPTO refused to register the mark SIELLA’S (standard characters) for ...
TTABlog Test: How Did These Three Recent TTAB Appeals Come Out? Here are three decisions issued by the TTAB last Friday, the first a Section 2(e)(1) mere descriptiveness refusal, the ...
Northeastern Law School and the Boston Intellectual Property Patent Law Society (BPLA) will host a panel/roundtable discussion entitled "The Original Sin of Trademark Law: Failure to Function" on November 5th from ...
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