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On remand from the CAFC, the TTAB sustained these two oppositions, finding the mark EARNHARDT COLLECTION for "furniture" and "custom construction of homes" to be primarily merely a surname under Section 2(e)(4).

TTAB Refuses to Allow Withdrawal of Express Abandonment of Opposed Application.

In this opposition to registration of the mark CERTIFIED EMAIL for various email services, Opposer USPS submitted the testimony declarations of four witnesses...

In a dubiously precedential Order, the ruled on several discovery-related motions in this opposition to registration of the mark GROMEO for "Planters for flowers and plants...

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 TTAB reversed a refusal to register the mark AWLVIEW for, inter alia, warehouse inventory management software, overturning the USPTO's rejection of applicant's specimen of use.

Professor J. Thomas McCarthy has been critical of the TTAB's dilution decisions (few that there are), and he left a few comments on this blog regarding ...

In April 2022, INTA filed an amicus brief (pdf here) supporting Jack Daniel's petition for en banc rehearing of the BAD SPANIELS decision in VIP Products LLC v. Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc.

Here's a bit of beach reading for your summer vacation: the May-June 2021 (Vol. 11 No. 3) issue of The Trademark Reporter (TMR). [pdf here]. Editor-in-Chief Willard Knox summarizes the contents, below.

INTA has published the September-October, 2021 (Vol. 111 No. 5) issue of The Trademark Reporter (TMR). Willard Knox, Editor-in-Chief, summarizes the contents as follows...

Martin B. "Marty" Schwimmer and Yours Truly co-authored an article recently published by the World Trademark Review, entitled "Where to appeal a TTAB decision?

It's not often that a plaintiff in a TTAB proceeding fails to clear the statutory standing hurdle, but that's what happened here. Petitioner Gayla Phillips sought cancellation of a registration...

The Supreme Court has vacated the portion of the judgment of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Booking. com B.V. v. USPTO that upheld the award of attorney's fees...

The Board affirmed a refusal to register the mark USER FIRST for "Computer software, namely, software development tools for the creation of mobile internet applications ...

The Board dismissed this appeal from a refusal to register the mark FINLISTICS CLIENTIQ for "Business development consulting services,...

The Board dismissed this petition for cancellation of a registration for the marks MOSAYEC (standard characters) for "providing temporary use of a web-based software application for...

Opposer Status Symbol Clothing claimed that the applicant's mark STATUS SYMBOL (Stylized) for clothing and footwear is likely to cause confusion with opposer's...