In a nonprecedential ruling, the CAFC has affirmed the Board's decision [TTABlogged here] finding Louis Vuitton Malletier's mark APOGÉE for perfume confusable with the registered mark APHOGEEfor hair care preparations. ...
[This guest post was written by Kira-Khanh McCarthy, a rising-3L at University of Notre Dame Law School.] The Board affirmed a refusal to register the phrase QUESTION OF THE DAY, ...
The Trademark Law and Practice Committee of the New York Intellectual Property Law Association (NYIPLA) will host a half-day program entitled "Hot Topics in IP Law" on Thursday, July 18th, ...
The Board sustained an opposition to registration of HOLLYWOOD HOTEL for hotel and bar services, finding that the applicant was not the owner of the mark at the time it ...
The USPTO refused registration of the mark MAIN LINE REFRESH(standard characters) for “Medical consultations; Medical services; Cosmetic and plastic surgery” [MAIN LINE disclaimed], finding it likely to cause confusion with ...
[This guest post was written by Kira-Khanh McCarthy, a rising-3L at University of Notre Dame Law School.] The Board reversed a Section 2(e)(5) refusal to register the package configuration mark ...
The Board affirmed a refusal to register the mark THE CARDIO GROUP & Design for "retail store services featuring medical devices," finding that applicant's specimens of use were unacceptable because ...
In this long-running cancellation proceeding aimed at a registration for the mark COHIBA for cigars, the Board considered "the means available to cross-examine a declarant or affiant testimonial witness outside ...
Supreme Court Holds Section 2(a) Ban on Registration of Immoral or Scandalous Marks Unconstitutional
In case you haven't heard, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Section 2(a)'s "immoral or scandalous" bar to trademark registration "infringes the First Amendment" and is therefore invalid as ...
In an enervating 22-page opinion, the Board rendered a split decision in this appeal from a genericness refusal of the service mark HEALTHPLANS.COM (in standard character form), for advertising services ...