Russell Earl "Bucky" Dent was a light-hitting shortstop for the New York Yankess when, in 1978, he hit a three-run homer that gave the Yankees a 3–2 lead in the AL East division tie-breaker game...

On Tuesday, July 13th at 12:30 PM, Ted Davis and Yours Truly will provide a review of recent trademark cases in a webinar aptly titled "Trademark Case Decisions...

Claims drawn to methods of treating a disease by administering a pharmaceutical agent have long been thought to be patentable in the US, but is this still the case?

On June 29, 2017, the day its pretrial disclosures were due, Opposer Kid-Systeme filed a motion to reopen its time to file a motion for summary judgment.

Affirming a refusal to register the color yellow appearing on packaging for "toroidal-shaped, oat-based breakfast cereal," the TTAB found that the alleged mark lacks acquired distinctiveness...

The latest issue of the The Trademark Reporter features an article by former TTAB Judge Lorelei Ritchie, now an Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University School of Law...

Professor Robert E. Mikos takes the USPTO to task in his recent Vanderbilt Law Review article, "Unauthorized and Unwise: The Lawful Use Requirement in Trademark Law".

The July-August 2022 issue of The Trademark Reporter [pdf here], as described by Willard Knox, Editor-in-Chief, "offers readers a first for the TMR: an article co-authored by a neuroscientist...

In case you haven't heard, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Section 2(a)'s "immoral or scandalous" bar to trademark registration "infringes the First Amendment" and is therefore

The time bar in Section 315(b) says that IPR may not be instituted if the petition was filed more than one year after the petitioner was "served with a complaint alleging infringement of the patent."

Last week, the Supreme Court released its opinion in Thryv, Inc. v. Click-to-Call. This case, as we previously reviewed, concerns whether the PTAB's application of the one-year statutory time bar for an IPR is appealable.

The Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 ("TMA") — signed into law by President Trump on December 27, 2020 as part of the COVID-19 relief and government funding package...

The Board affirmed a refusal to register the proposed mark FLIPPABLE FIRMNESS for "Online retail store services featuring bed frames, foundations, mattresses, pillows, toppers, and bed sheets"...

The TTAB has issued a revised Standard Protective Order (here). Pursuant to Trademark Rule 2.116(g), this standard protective order is automatically imposed in all Board proceedings.

A number of trademark practitioners believe that the TTAB should be issuing more precedential decisions.The Board has recently made available a form for nominating a Board decision as precedential.

The USPTO is seeking applications for the position of Supervisory Managing Interlocutory Attorney at the TTAB. The detailed announcement may be found here at the USA Jobs website.

The USPTO refused to register the proposed mark GOLDN PAYDIRT for ""Gold; Gold bullion; Gold ore; Gold and its alloys; Gold, unworked or semi-worked; Gold, unwrought or beaten; Palladium; Palladium and its alloys; ...

I ran a Twitter poll for the last several days, asking this question: After attending the INTA Annual Meeting in DC, did you test positive for Covid? The results are set out below.

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 an opinion of just over seven pages, the Board affirmed a Section 2(e)(1) refusal to register CONSERVATIVE INSTITUTE for providing on-line information if the fields of politics class 35)