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

In a case "on all fours" with the Board's recent Stanley Bros. decision (TTABlogged here), the Board affirmed a refusal to register the purported mark CB2GO for...

The cited mark could be depicted in the same stylization as applicant's mark.

In a nonprecedential ruling, the CAFC has affirmed the Board's decision finding Louis Vuitton Malletier's mark APOGÉE for perfume confusable with the registered mark APHOGEE for hair care preparations.

In a non-precedential opinion, the CAFC upheld the Board's decision affirming a Section 2(e)(5) functionality refusal of of the packaging designs shown below for "electric cables and wire.

The CAFC dismissed an appeal from the TTAB's May 3, 2019 decision [here] dismissing the Royal Crown parties' consolidated opposition to sixteen trademarks containing the term ZERO.

You will recall that in Peter v. Nantkwest, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld an en banc decision of the CAFC, ruling that the USPTO is not entitled to recover its attorney's fees...

In a brief, nonprecedential opinion, the CAFC affirmed the TTAB's decision of November 23, 2018 (pdf here) granting a petition for cancellation of a registration for the mark MOBILEBLACKBOX...

Peloton Cold Brew filed a civil action for review of an adverse TTAB decision, under Section 1071(b) of the Trademark Act. [Complaint here]. The Board had entered judgment against Cold Brew as a discovery sanction [here],...

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (Judge Liam O'Grady) affirmed the TTAB's decision of January 20, 2020, dismissing a petition for cancellation of a registration of the mark SHUSTOV & Design …

Applicant Soundscape, Inc. pulled out all the stops but its arguments for reversal of this Section 2(d) refusal failed to move the TTAB.

I have again reviewed the TTAB's FOIA page (now called the "TTAB Reading Room") in order to estimate the percentage of Section 2(e)(1) mere descriptiveness refusals that were affirmed by the Board during the last calendar year (2021).

On August 28, 2023, the Federal Circuit issued a decision in In re Cellect, LLC, affirming the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's (PTAB)...

The USPTO refused registration of the mark BAZAAR HOME, finding it merely descriptive of "Retail and online retail store services featuring furniture...

In a rare granting of a motion for reconsideration, the Board vacated its order of December 28, 2018 ...

The Board reversed a Section 2(e)(5) refusal to register the package configuration mark shown below, for "canned fish; tinned fish."

In a 61-page opinion, the Board sustained three oppositions to registration of the mark NATURE MADE for various foods and beverages, including snack bars containing dried fruits and fruit juice

Finding that Opposer Rapid Inc.'s star witness "had not only been been dishonest with the Board, but he also engaged in spoliation of evidence,"...

The TTAB rejected Applicant Berkeley Lights' quixotic request for reconsideration of the Board's January 2022 decision affirming a Section 2(e)(1) mere descriptiveness refusal of DEEP OPTO PROFILING for various chemicals ...

You might say the Applicant Fancy Pants relied on the old rope-a-dope strategy in this opposition to its application to register SMOKES & Design for "Cigarettes...