The USPTO refused to register the mark FIT IN YOUR GENES, finding it likely to cause confusion with the registered mark FITGENES & Design, shown below, both for weight loss programs. Applicant ...
I have reviewed the TTAB's FOIA page in an attempt to estimate the percentage of Section 2(e)(1) mere descriptiveness refusals that were affirmed by the Board during the last calendar year (2017). ...
As I do every year since Hector was a pup, I have reviewed the TTAB's FOIA page in an attempt to estimate the percentage of Section 2(d) likelihood-of-confusion refusals that were affirmed ...
The Board granted Opposer Kastle's motion for summary judgment, dismissing Applicant Lee's counterclaim alleging fraud in the procurement of one of Kastle's pleaded registrations. Applicant claimed that opposer made arguments ...
In view of the upcoming retirement of Deputy Chief Judge Susan M. Richey at the TTAB, the USPTO has posted a vacancy announcement for the position (here). The Deputy Chief ...
In a rare Section 43(c) dilution decision, the Board sustained Chanel's opposition to registration of the mark shown below left, for accounting services, finding the mark likely to cause dilution ...
In the first precedential decision of the new year, the Board reversed the USPTO's refusal to register the mark shown below, for various mailing services, overturning the Examining Attorney's rejection ...
Here's another 2017 precedential interlocutory ruling that slipped under the TTABlog radar. In this consolidated opposition and cancellation proceeding, the Board considered whether an answer may be amended to add an omitted ...
Here's a 2017 ruling that slipped under the TTABLog radar. In this precedential order, the Board denied an FRCP 12(c) motion for judgment on the pleadings, directed at applicant's counterclaims, ...
The USPTO refused registration of the mark shown below left, finding it likely to cause confusion with the mark shown below right, both for cigars. On appeal, applicant argued that ...