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Respondent Awshucks SC, LLC fended off a petition for cancellation of its registration for the mark A.W. SHUCK'S (standard characters) for "restaurant and bar services" by proving that, during its period ...
Here is a Trademark Alert Published by Wolf Greenfield regarding the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 ("TMA") and the upcoming trademark fee changes. The Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (“TMA”) — ...
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (Tee-Tee-Ā-Bee) has scheduled seven (VII) oral hearings for the month of January 2021. The hearings will be held via video. Briefs and other papers ...
The TTAB recently decided 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 Board ...
The USPTO refused to register the proposed mark SPIDER WOOD (not to be confused with Tiger Woods or Natalie Wood) for "Decorative ornaments in the nature of natural sculptures of wood ...
Bernatello's Pizza opposed an application to register the mark LOTSA STONE FIRED PIZZA for restaurant services (STONE FIRED PIZZA disclaimed), alleging a likelihood of confusion with the registered marks LOTZZA MOTZZA for frozen pizza ...
A holiday present for all of us: the November–December 2020 (Vol. 110 No. 6) issue of The Trademark Reporter (TMR). Kudos to Editor-in-Chief Willard Knox for this impressive collection. Willard provided the ...
Whales may be rare, but even rarer is a USPTO quadrifusal! The Office refused to register four marks comprising or containing the term PACIFIC WHALE FOUNDATION for promotional, educational, fundraising, and ...
[This guest post was written by Kira-Khanh McCarthy, a law clerk (soon-to-be associate) in the Trademark Group at Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.] In a nonprecedential opinion, the U.S. Court ...