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The USPTO refused to register the proposed mark THE CHIRO PLACE, in standard form ("CHIRO" disclaimed), finding confusion likely with the registered mark THE CHIRO SPOT ("CHIRO" disclaimed), both for chiropractic services.

Whales may be rare, but even rarer is a USPTO quadrifusal! The Office refused to register four marks comprising or containing the term PACIFIC WHALE FOUNDATION ...

Here are three mildly interesting recent TTAB decisions. How do you think they came out? [Answers in first comment].

A TTAB judge once said to me that one can predict the outcome of a Section 2(d) case 95% of the time just by looking at the marks and the goods or services.

Here are three recent TTAB decisions in Section 2(d) inter partes proceedings. Not knowing all the facts, see if you can guess how they came out.

According to one TTAB judge, you can predict the outcome of a Section 2(d) case 95% of the time just by looking at the marks and the goods or services.

The TTAB recently ruled on the appeals from three Section 2(e)(1) mere descriptiveness refusals summarized below.

The TTAB recently decided the appeals from the three Section 2(e)(1) mere descriptiveness (or disclaimer) refusals summarized below.

A TTAB judge once told me that one can predict the outcome of a Section 2(d) case 95% of the time just by looking at the marks and the goods/services.

The TTAB recently decided the appeals from the three Section 2(d) likelihood of confusion refusals summarized below. At least one of the three refusals was reversed.

The TTAB (Tee-Tee-Ā-Bee) recently decided the appeals from the three Section 2(d) likelihood of confusion refusals summarized below. At least one of the three refusals was reversed.

The USPTO is seeking applications for the position of Administrative Trademark Judge at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. The application period is open until September 8, 2020.

The Board affirmed a refusal to register, on the Supplemental Register, the phrase WORLD'S BEST DOWN for bedding containing down [DOWN disclaimed]

In another precedential interlocutory ruling from 2017 that eluded this blogger, the Board refused to allow Applicant Rural Health to submit certain non-party discovery depositions by way of notice of reliance, ...

After fourteen (14) years of litigation at the TTAB and in the courts, the battle between Bayer and Belmora over the mark FLANAX continues.

The TTAB recently ruled on the appeals from the three Section 2(e)(1) mere descriptiveness refusals summarized below. No hints this time. Let's see how you do with them. Answer will be found in the first comment.

In a nonprecedential decision, the CAFC affirmed the TTAB's entry of judgment against Respondent Kris Kaszuba...

[This guest post was written by Kira-Khanh McCarthy, a 2L at University of Notre Dame Law School].