In a precedential ruling, the U.S Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit weaved its way through Supreme Court precedent on the law of color marks in vacating (and remanding) ...
Professional wrestler Ric Flair lost this bout at the TTAB, the Board affirming a Section 2(d) refusal to register the mark NATURE BOY for various items of clothing, in view of the registered ...
Chris Combs opposed Willie Sonley's application to register BOOTYMAXX for "vitamins," claiming a likelihood of confusion with his previously used common law mark BOOTYMAXTV for "non-pornographic videos of women shaking and moving their ...
The Board reversed a Section 2(e)(1) refusal to register mark MINKY COUTURE for "Baby blankets; Bed blankets; Children’s blankets, all made using minky fabric" [MINKY disclaimed], finding that the mark had ...
The USPTO issued a Section 2(e)(1) refusal of the mark ARTIZEN, in standard character and stylized form, finding it to be merely descriptive of essential oils and related products. On ...
On remand from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Board again affirmed a Section 2(d) refusal to register the mark GUILD MORTGAGE COMPANY & Design for "mortgage ...
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has scheduled one final hearing for the month of April 2020. For obvious reasons, the hearing will be held by video conference. Briefs and ...
The USPTO issued a Section 2(e)(1) refusal to register the proposed mark PERFORMANCE, finding it merely descriptive of "Energy bars; energy chews; energy gummy; effervescent tablets for making a dietary ...
Some ten years ago, a TTAB judge said to me that one can predict the outcome of a Section 2(d) case 95% of the time just by looking at the ...
In a rare Section 2(d) refusal involving color marks, the Board reversed a refusal to register, on the Supplemental Register, the color green (below left) as applied to “Medical examination ...