In her article, "Using Failure to Function Doctrine to Protect Free Speech and Competition in Trademark Law," Professor Lisa P. Ramsey of the University of San Diego School...

Lisa Larimore Ouellette, Associate Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, responds to the article posted here yesterday, in a note entitled, Does Running Out Of (Some) Trademarks Matter?, 131 Harv. Law. Rev. Forum 116 (2018) [pdf here].

Hat tip to Ted Davis for allowing me to post a link (here) to his 2019 outline of trademark decisions, "Recent Developments in Trademark and Unfair Competition Law."

In the time since the America Invents Act (AIA) created the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), inter partes review (IPR) and other PTAB proceedings for challenging patents' ...

The next quarterly meeting of the United States Patent and Trademark Office's Trademark Public Advisory Committee (TPAC) will be held on July 29, 2022, from 11:30AM to 2:30 PM (ET).

One of the refusals was reversed.

Uber is seeking to hire a trademark paralegal for its San Francisco Office.

"When I was 17, it was a very good year." At least for the TTABlog. Let's hope this coming year is better for everyone. The blog debuted on November 8, 2004, with a post entitled "Leo Stoller Loses Again.

An article authored by Matthew Grady titled "Updating IP Protection Strategies With Growth" was published in Managing Intellectual Property.

One doesn't hear much about the outcome of reexamination petitions. I came across this denial of a petition involving alleged nonuse of the mark shown below, for pet accessories...

In case you missed it, or (for some unfathomable reason) you want to hear it again, yesterday's webcast entitled "TTAB Update: Rules, Rulings, and Ruminations" may be downloaded here.

We're pleased to feature Justin Colannino in this episode of Wolf Greenfield's Alumni Spotlight series. Justin was an associate in Wolf Greenfield's Litigation Practice from 2014-2017.

Discretionary denial has been a hot topic at the PTAB. On Wednesday, February 24th, Wolf Greenfield hosted a webinar to discuss discretionary denial at the PTAB, and in particular, discretionary...

For the third time, the Board applied sovereign immunity as a defense to IPR. In Reactive Surfaces Ltd. v. Toyota Motor Corporation (IPR2017-00572 & IPR2016-01914), the Board determined that a public university...

Amanda B. Slade and yours truly, The TTABlogger, will present a webinar entitled "What Non-US Practitioners Need to Know About US Trademark Law and the Recent Trademark Modernization Act ("TMA"),"...

Attorney Jonathan Roses is a shareholder in Wolf Greenfield's Pharmaceutical Practice Group. He works with life sciences companies in a variety of areas, including small molecule pharmaceuticals...

Nearly every important issue in trademark litigation turns on the question of what consumers in the marketplace subjectively believe to be true.

Prosecution history can be a minefield in patent cases, and IPR is no different. In the context of construing patent claims, much of the focus is often on whether the patent owner disclaimed ...

The PTAB recently signaled a warning to petitioners about the dangers of third party submissions made during patent prosecution—even during prosecution of a separate but related patent.

Jonathan Roses co-authored on behalf of the Boston Patent Law Association's (BPLA's) Patent Office Practice Committee a May 2021 Response to USPTO Request for Comments on proposed updates...