In a trademark infringement suit in the Southern District of New York, the U.S. district court granted plaintiff's motion for summary judgment...

The Board reversed a refusal to register the mark CARAT (Stylized) for aircraft connectivity services that enable transmission of data to and from aircraft.

The USPTO refused to register, on the Supplemental Register, the term D'AVOCADO for "high pressure pasteurized avocado based chocolate confections, mousses...

On May 18, 2023, the United States Supreme Court ruled that Andy Warhol's pop rendition of a photograph of the artist Prince was not immunized from a claim of copyright infringement by the fair use defense.

Invalidity grounds in IPR that are not based on patents must be based on printed publications. But the nature of the evidence required at the time of institution to show that a non-patent reference is a printed publication...

The Board affirmed a refusal to register the proposed mark YOLA'S ALL NATURAL for ""cosmetics; anti-aging moisturizer; beauty serums; body scrub; body scrubs; facial moisturizers; facial scrubs...

In the Matter of CERTAIN CARBURETORS AND PRODUCTS CONTAINING SUCH CARBURETORS, Inv. No. 337-TA-1123, Initial Determination Granting Summary Determination

Here are three recent TTAB decisions in Section 2(d) appeals. I'm not giving any hints, so you're on your own, my friends.

The USPTO has extended the time to file certain patent and trademark-related documents and to pay certain required fees, which otherwise would have been due between ..

The USPTO refused registration of the mark S-LON for "yarns and threads for use in making beaded jewelry...

The Board affirmed a refusal to register, on the Supplemental Register, the product configuration mark shown below, for "printed paper labels; paper identification tags; printed paper labels; adhesive labels"...

The USPTO refused registration of the mark ATHLETE INTELLIGENCE, in standard character form, for wearable monitoring devices and systems.

The Board sustained this opposition to registration of FOUNDATIONAL MEDICINE REVIEW for "journals in the field of medicine" and "providing on-line non-downloadable articles...

This rather mundane Section 2(d) appeal was apparently deemed precedential because of the applicant's attempt...

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

The TTAB, in a combined program with the PTAB, will take its "Stadium Tour" to Tulane University Law School in New Orleans on February 28th. The TTAB panel will hear oral argument in the two cases summarized below

North Carolina's specimens of use included explanatory text such as "[n]ew scratch-offs the first Tuesday of every month.

On January 18, 2022, the CAFC denied Appellant Brooklyn Brewery's petition for panel rehearing and rehearing en banc in the recent Brooklyn Brewery case.

The U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina dismissed Princeton Vanguard's civil action seeking review of the TTAB's September 6, 2017...

The Board sustained an opposition to registration of SNORE DOCTOR for "nasal dilators; therapeutic mouthpieces for the prevention of snoring" [DOCTOR disclaimed], finding confusion likely with Opposer James S. Fallon's common law mark ...