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Category: TTAB Practice

Posted on April 26, 2022 TTAB Practice

Semaphores and metales

Two kinds of analogy, as scrambled by an old and dear friend. Evidently, there is another kind. John Welch writes about a TTAB decision cancelling... Read more

Posted on April 3, 2022 TTAB Practice

Nothing more fun than reading a scathing review!

Not that that’s the only reason Frank Rich should have stayed in his old job. But I digress. John Welch nominates a recent TTAB decision... Read more

Posted on January 23, 2022 TTAB Practice

McCarthy speaks

This is really something!  I always knew John Welch was the definitive resource online, and then some, for what’s going on at the Trademark Trials... Read more

Posted on June 2, 2021 TTAB Practice

If this is the TTAB, that must not be fraud

Mostly by way of linking to posts by John Welch, I have for years been following the post-Bose decline of fraud on the PTO as... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 TTAB Practice

Welch’s top ten

America’s greatest natural Trademark Trial and Appeal Board resource, John Welch, has posted part one of his Top Ten TTAB Decisions of 2011.  From his... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 TTAB Practice

Don’t mutilate my mark!

John Welch treats us to another edition of “You Be the Judge” — well, he calls it something slightly else, but whatever — and asks... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 TTAB Practice

The growing tresses in IP claims in fictional characters

No, I am not posting a picture of the fun we had at Meet the Bloggers 2018 in Seattle! Rather, it’s this business: SHERLOCK HOLMES... Read more

John Welch of the TTABlog
Posted on May 25, 2021 TTAB Practice

TTABlog’s Top Ten List

John Welch has published part one of his annual roundup of “top” ten TTAB decisions of the previous year, which in this case, of course,... Read more

Posted on May 24, 2021 TTAB Practice

Best of 2009: Keeping it real — the ultimate use in commerce

This was first posted on May 7, 2009. The TTABlog® reports, again, on the fraud issue, but that’s not what interests me here so much... Read more

Posted on December 19, 2019January 7, 2020 TTAB Practice

TTAB reminds everyone who’s in charge

The TTABlog on what every TTAB practitioner knows: The Board still elevates form over substance in one really dumb way: Several trademark practitioners on the... Read more

Posted on October 29, 2019 TTAB Practice

Update (and clarifications) about the SLANTS appeal (UPDATED)

There has been some press coverage of the intention of my client, The Slants, to appeal the denial of their application to register THE SLANTS.... Read more

John Welch of the TTABlog
Posted on October 17, 2019 TTAB Practice

Talking the Slants talk

@TTABlog This was the result of the best of intentions executed by fine professionals trying to divine their duties in a world gone mad. —... Read more

Posted on September 20, 2019 TTAB Practice

We are the world

Originally posted 2008-08-21 11:59:14. Republished by Blog Post Promoter A classic explanation, via the case method, of trademark law’s doctrine of foreign equivalents: Affirming a... Read more

Posted on September 20, 2019 TTAB Practice

Keeping tabs on the worst

John Welch presents the “Ten Worst TTAB Decisions of 2007.” I love stuff like this! Originally posted 2013-06-11 12:05:04. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more

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The question of whether consumers are likely to be confused is the signal inquiry that determines if a trademark infringement claim is valid. I write here about trademark law, copyright law, brands, free speech (mostly as it relates to the Internet and social media). That may sound like a lot, but it's just a blog.

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