In case you haven't heard, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Section 2(a)'s "immoral or scandalous" bar to trademark registration "infringes the First Amendment" and is therefore invalid as ...
In an enervating 22-page opinion, the Board rendered a split decision in this appeal from a genericness refusal of the service mark HEALTHPLANS.COM (in standard character form), for advertising services ...
[This guest post was written by Kira-Khanh McCarthy, a rising-3L at University of Notre Dame Law School.] The USPTO refused to register the mark RUFF CHEWERS, in standard characters (CHEWERS ...
The Board affirmed a refusal to register the mark shown immediately below on the ground that it fails to function as a service mark for "Retail store services featuring handmade ...
[This guest post was written by Stephanie Grace Stella, an associate in the Trademark Group at Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.] The USPTO refused to register the mark FRANCIEPANTS (standard ...
In this cancellation proceeding involving a registration for the mark CAPTAIN CANNABIS for comic books, the Board faced the question of whether a witness located in the United States, whose ...
The Board affirmed a refusal to register the mark IZAKAYA KOPAN RAMEN & Design (shown below) for restaurant services [IZAYAKA and RAMEN disclaimed], finding a likelihood of confusion with the ...
The Board sustained this opposition to registration of the mark MEZQUILA for "alcoholic beverages except beer," finding that "Applicant's intent at the time they filed their application was merely to ...
[This guest post was written by Kira-Khanh McCarthy, a rising-3L at University of Notre Dame Law School.] Examining Attorney Alison Keeley refused registration of the mark PRINCE KONG (in standard ...
The Board affirmed the USPTO's refusal to register the term UNLIMITED CARRYOVERfor telecommunication services, finding that the phrase, as used on applicant's specimen of use (shown right), failed to function ...