The TTAB affirmed a refusal to register the product configuration shown below, for "yoga mats," the purported mark being described as "a three-dimensional configuration of a rectangular-shaped yoga mat...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

In this Section 2(e)(1) opposition, the Board agreed with Opposer Christie Brinkley Skincare that Applicant Alumier's alleged mark IR DEFENSE is merely descriptive

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."

The USPTO refused to register the proposed mark FETAL LIFE for fetal health signal monitors and related goods, finding the mark to be merely descriptive under Section 2(e)(1).

When a Section 2(d) refusal is affirmed in an opinion of a mere eight pages, that case is a prime candidate for the "WYHA?" label.

The Board affirmed a refusal to register the mark IZAKAYA KOPAN RAMEN & Design (shown below) for restaurant services [IZAYAKA and RAMEN disclaimed],

When an opinion in an ex parte appeal is only seven pages long, it's usually bad news for the applicant. Here, Applicant Solo Beats applied to register the mark shown below left, for "audio speakers...

The Board affirmed refusals of the mark SOUTHFACE VILLAGE, in standard character and design form, for "building construction; residential ...

On October 30, 2023, the White House published the "Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence" ("Order").

In the wake of SAS Institute v. Iancu, the PTAB has sometimes expanded pending IPRs to include previously un-instituted grounds

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 continues to run at an affirmance rate of about 95% for Section 2(d) appeals. Here are three more for your consideration. How do you think they came out? [Results in first comment].

So far this year, the Board has affirmed 104 of the 108 Section 2(d) appeals that it has decided. How do you think these three came out?...

So far this year, the Board has affirmed 130 of the 139 Section 2(d) refusals on appeal. How do you think these three recent appeals came out? [Results in first comment].

So far this year, the Board has affirmed 155 of the 167 Section 2(d) refusals on appeal (just about 93%)

So far this year, the Board has affirmed 158 of the 170 Section 2(d) refusals on appeal (just about 93%). Here are three decisions that came down recently. How do you think they came out? [Results in first comment].