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 we have previously discussed, some petitioners for IPR are not able to appeal an adverse decision by the PTAB because they lack constitutional standing.

Fellow Meet-the-Blogger Erik Pelton once again provides a report (here) on the latest meeting of the Trademark Public Advisory Committee (a/k/a TPAC).

On July 17, 2023, the Commission issued a Notice electing to review in part and, on review, to affirm ALJ Bhattacharyya's Initial Determination finding no violation of Section 337.

The Board affirmed Section 2(d) refusals to register the proposed marks IMAGINELABORATORIES.COM, IMAGINELABORATORY.COM and IMAGINELABS.NET for telecommunications technology...

Plaintiff Gerlach, Inc. asserted four claims in this civil action: unfair competition under the Lanham Act, trademark infringement, deceptive trade practices, and a claim for cancellation...

In a less that scintillating case, the Board affirmed a Section 2(e)(1) refusal to register the proposed mark DXPORTAL, finding the mark to be merely descriptive of "providing an Internet website portal in the...

For some reason, the Board has re-designated as precedential an interlocutory order in this Section 2(d) opposition involving an application to register the mark RASASVADA for alcohol and spirits.

To be registrable, a proposed trademark must function as a source indicator in the eyes of relevant consumers.

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 ...

Professor Jennifer E. Rothman of the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law, a leading expert on the right of publicity, grapples with the overlapping and conflicting rights...

INTA has published the November-December, 2021 (Vol. 111 No. 6) issue of The Trademark Reporter (TMR). [pdf here]. Willard Knox, Editor-in-Chief, summarizes the contents as follows (and below)...

Examining Attorney Amy Kertgate maintained that the stylization was not sufficiently distinctive to justify registration of the generic term.

The Board affirmed a refusal to register the proposed mark LETTERS & NUMBERS (in standard character form) on the Supplemental Register...

In an ownership dispute that "has the makings of a country song," the Board found that legendary country singer Cowboy Jack Clement and Opposer Clementvision, Inc., a company he formed,...

In December 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed (in part) the district court's dismissal of a civil action for unfair competition, trademark dilution, and trademark infringement involving Defendant Meenakshi's three IDHAYAM marks registered for sesame seed oil.

The Board denied a petition for cancellation of a registration for the mark THE NATURAL DOG FOOD MARKET & Design for "retail store services featuring a wide variety of consumer goods of others,"...

In the twelfth Section 2(d) reversal of 2022 (versus 156 affirmances), the Board overturned a Section 2(d) refusal to register the mark EPIGENE for "electronic database in the field of genes recorded on computer media.

The USPTO refused to register the mark MBBM for "battery monitors" on the ground of likelihood of confusion with the registered mark MBBM-VAS for, inter alia.

The USPTO refused registration of the proposed mark HIFI.