In this consolidated cancellation proceeding involving registrations for the marks MONSTER SEAL A FLAT, MONSTER UP, and UNLEASH THE BEAST for "tire sealing compound," Respondent Martin moved to strike Petitioner Monster Energy Company’s notice of ...
The Board affirmed the USPTO's refusal to register the term MECHANICALLY FLOOR-MALTED, in standard characters, finding it to be generic for "malt for brewing and distilling" in International Class 31 and ...
Eric Goldman, Professor at Santa Clara University School of Law, Director of the law school's High Tech Law Institute, and well known blogger (Technology and Marketing Law Blog), considers the ...
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 goods or services. ...
The Trademark Reporter has published its Annual Review of U.S. Trademark Cases: "The Seventieth Year of Administration of the Lanham Act of 1946," by Theodore H. Davis, Jr. and yours truly, ...
The Board sustained an opposition to registration of the slogan REMEMBER THIS NAME for legal services on the ground that the phrase does not function as a service mark. Applicant Lundy Law ...
Playboy Enterprises failed to pull a rabbit out of its hat in this appeal from a Section 2(d) refusal of the mark shown below, for various entertainment services including video ...
The Board affirmed a requirement that Applicant Northeastern University amend its identification of goods for the mark NORTHEASTERN by specifying the material composition of its "clips for electric charging cables" to allow ...
The USPTO refused registration of the mark ALL IN ONE, finding it to be merely descriptive of "electric wall-mounted hand dryers." Applicant Excel argued that because its products perform only ...
Here's a current list of the thirteen (13) TTAB interlocutory attorneys. If you have practiced before the Board, you've probably run into one or more of them. Andrew P. Baxley ...