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Tag: Fraud

Posted on February 20, 2023 Law Practice and Profession

Schaden-Fraud?

John Welch has once again updated his Fraud-O-Meter! Behind this clever Infographic-type thingy is a report of a meaningful legal development concerning the concept of... Read more

Posted on October 23, 2022 Uncategorized

The TTABlog Fraud Collection

Excellent trademark “research” for the slower, or lower, moments. Originally posted 2012-04-23 18:48:45. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more

Posted on September 2, 2022 Trademarks and trademark law

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 June 17, 2021 Trademarks and trademark law

Canada: Courts can distinguish TM fraud from error

Larry Munn: The Federal Court recently made clear that Canadian law does not recognize a rule equivalent to the U.S. doctrine of fraud on the... 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 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 April 8, 2020 Uncategorized

Thoughts on Welch’s thoughts on PTO fraud

The TTABlog®‘s John Welch shares his thoughts from on “fraud on the PTO in the post-Bose era.  Excerpt: So how does one plead a fraud... Read more

Posted on October 17, 2019 Uncategorized

Vintage PTO “fraud”?

The TTABlog® almost breathlessly — and, quite understandably, considering — links to Seattle Trademark Lawyer, who reports on a case,  One True Vine, LLC v.... Read more

Posted on October 17, 2019 Law Practice and Profession

Best of 2012: Schaden-Fraud?

First posted on September 24, 2012. John Welch has once again updated his Fraud-O-Meter! Behind this clever Infographic-type thingy is a report of a meaningful... Read more

Posted on September 18, 2019 Trademarks and trademark law

“Fraud on the PTO”

Here’s a special guest post on the TTABlog that lays out the state of the law regarding the increasingly confusing, and sometimes distressing, issue for... Read more

Posted on March 8, 2016 Trademarks and trademark law

A fraud by any other name would… well…

While our intrepid brother the TTABlogger resorts to reading entrails, employing dowsing rods and attending seances in his search for the answer to “fraud on... Read more

Posted on December 28, 2015December 28, 2015 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 August 7, 2014 TTAB Practice

Secret defrauder ring (UPDATED)

I want one, too! What is the FRAUD-O-METER™?  Its creator, John Welch, explains: Some say that a picture is worth a thousand words, and that... Read more

Posted on March 21, 2013 Uncategorized

Pay no attention to that IP lawyer behind the curtain

The American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) wants to see a climb down on findings of “fraud on the PTO” based on the innocent misdescription... Read more

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