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
Category: 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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