Seeking judicial review of an IPR decision can be a trap for the unwary. Section 319 permits a "dissatisfied" party to appeal.

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

PAVE: Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment filed a Section 1(b) application to register the mark SafeBAE for "Providing emotional ...

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...

On appeal of a PTAB decision finding all claims in a patent directed to compressing video files unpatentable, the Federal Circuit clarified two issues.

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 ...

Collateral estoppel, or issue preclusion, is the legal doctrine that bars a litigant from re-litigating in subsequent litigations an issue that it lost in an earlier litigation.

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...

Today, companies are developing artificial intelligence (AI) systems to meaningfully analyze the deluge of biomedical data. A substantial investment in building and deploying machine learning (ML)

When most people think of patents, they naturally think of utility patents. Utility patents claim novel and non-obvious products and processes in words, occasionally using...

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...

The Board affirmed another Section 2(d) refusal, finding the mark shown first below, for "clothing, namely, shirts, hats, sweatshirts, shorts and sweatpants," likely to cause confusion...

The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (Tee-Tee-Ā-Bee) has scheduled two (2) oral hearings for the month of December 2020. Briefs and other papers for each case may be found at TTABVUE via the links provided.

The Board reveresd a refusal to register the mark CAPSIMOPS for "Downloadable computer software for application and database integration in the educational field,"...

[This guest post was written by Kira-Khanh McCarthy, a rising-3L at University of Notre Dame Law School.]

The USPTO refused registration of the mark shown below left, for "T-shirts," finding the mark likely to cause confusion with the mark shown below right, for "clothing, namely hats and shirts."

Here are three Section 2(d) appeals decided two days ago. Third-party use and registration evidence played a significant role in each case.

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

The USPTO refused to register the proposed mark SWEET GEORGIA BROWN for "liquor," finding confusion likely with the registered mark SWEET GEORGIA BROWNS for "candy."

Here are Board's three latest opinions in Section 2(d) appeals, involving a total of eight refusals (six in the second case).