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That's an affirmance rate of 91.3%, or slightly more than 9 out of 10.

I have again reviewed the TTAB's FOIA page (now called the "TTAB Reading Room") in order to estimate the percentage of Section 2(e)(1) mere descriptiveness refusals that were affirmed by the Board during the last calendar year (2021).

The Board reversed four failure-to-function refusals of the mark RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS, in the special form shown below, for goods and services relating to the promotion and encouragement

The USPTO refused registration of the mark BAZAAR HOME, finding it merely descriptive of "Retail and online retail store services featuring furniture...

[This guest post was authored by John L. Strand, Shareholder in the Trademark and Litigation Groups at Wolf Greenfield.]

In a rare granting of a motion for reconsideration, the Board vacated its order of December 28, 2018 ...

The Board reversed a Section 2(e)(5) refusal to register the package configuration mark shown below, for "canned fish; tinned fish."

In a precedential interlocutory order, the Board delivered up a nothingburger to Applicant Eifit LLC on its motion to strike certain of Opposer Icon Health's testimony and evidence.

In this long-running cancellation proceeding aimed at a registration for the mark COHIBA for cigars, the Board considered.

In a 61-page opinion, the Board sustained three oppositions to registration of the mark NATURE MADE for various foods and beverages, including snack bars containing dried fruits and fruit juice

Finding that Opposer Rapid Inc.'s star witness "had not only been been dishonest with the Board, but he also engaged in spoliation of evidence,"...

The Board granted a petition for cancellation of a registration for the mark shown below for mortgage financing services, finding that Petitioner CBC Mortgage...

In this dubiously precedential decision, the Board granted Petitioner Narita Export's motion for summary judgment, unsurprisingly finding the registered mark TONOSAMA for gift baskets...

The Board re-designated as precedential its decision (on summary judgment) sustaining guitar-maker Fender's opposition to registration of the mark EN-D-FENDER for "musical instruments,"...

The TTAB rejected Applicant Berkeley Lights' quixotic request for reconsideration of the Board's January 2022 decision affirming a Section 2(e)(1) mere descriptiveness refusal of DEEP OPTO PROFILING for various chemicals ...

In a somewhat muddled decision, the Board affirmed a refusal to register the proposed mark HAVE SOME DECENCY for various charitable fund raising services on the ground ...

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.

In a soporific, yet precedential decision, the Board granted a petition for cancellation of a registration for the mark NT-MDT (in the design form shown below) for, inter alia, microscopes...