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The USPTO refused registration of the mark DIMOND for "bicycle frames, not including bicycle parts," finding a likelihood of confusion with the registered mark DIAMOND...

The USPTO refused registration of the proposed mark HIFI.

Here are three ex parte appeals decided yesterday by the Board: a Section 2(d) likelihood of confusion case, a Section 2(e)(1) mere descriptiveness refusal, and a Section 2(e)(4) surname ruling.

The USPTO is seeking applications for the position of Deputy Chief Administrative Trademark Judge at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. The announcement is open until September 28, 2018.

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 by the Board...

In a six-page decision, the Board affirmed a Section 2(e)(1) refusal to register the mark LYNKD, finding it merely descriptive of electronic monitoring and safety devices controllable by mobile phone, and related software.

The Board affirmed a Section 2(d) refusal of FREESTYLE for "comforters, namely, comforters and comforter sets and comforter sets sold in a bag," finding the mark likely to cause confusion with the identical mark...

Amanda B. Slade and yours truly, The TTABlogger, will present a webinar entitled "What Non-US Practitioners Need to Know About US Trademark Law and the Recent Trademark Modernization Act ("TMA"),"...

In a nonprecedential per curiam opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the TTAB's decision...

The Board sustained an opposition to registration of the mark shown below, for "Beer-based cocktails; Essences used in the preparation of liqueurs; Malt extracts for making beer; Non-alcoholic...

In a rare case involving a geographic certification mark (sometimes called a certification mark of regional origin), the Board affirmed a Section 2(d) refusal of the mark...

Professor Christine Farley of American University Washington College of Law, in her article, "The Lost Unfair Competition Law," notes the oft-repeated assertion that trademark law "is but a part of the broader law of unfair competition."

[This is a guest post by Susmita Gadre, a rising 3-L at Northeastern University School of Law, and a summer associate at Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.].

I will not make any references to the recent demise of the Houston Rockets.

The Board affirmed a Section 2(e)(5) refusal to register the product configuration shown below, for "yoga blocks," finding the proposed mark to be de jure functional and therefore

The Board has reached back and deemed precedential its May 3, 2019 decision granting Coca-Cola's Rule 2.133...

WHB Licensing, owner of the mark BRAUM'S for restaurant services and various food items, opposed a Section 66(a) application to register the mark BRAM'S, in design form, for restaurant services and various food items.