Chippendales shimmies up to the Circuit
Hot (if unlike LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® you go for that sort of thing) off the presses — here’s the appellate brief in the Chippendale’s appeal of... Read more
Tag: PTO 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
Best of 2008: Tackiness not grounds for refusal to register
[Posted December 1, 2008.] Otherwise, why would John Welch be reporting this appeal?: December 4, 2008 – 10 AM: In re Chippendales USA, LLC, Serial... Read more
Redskins redux
Remember the Washington Redskins trademark tussle? CNBC reports that it’s back — again — and better than ever. This time the focus is an interesting... Read more
Immoral / scandalous test lives at PTO
John Welch reports on a denial of a Spanish-language mark upheld on that basis, which continues to puzzle me, though it does not bother me... Read more
Redskins redux 2
I didn’t have a chance to mention that last month, the order denying the legal challenge to the Washington Redskin’s use of its trademark American... Read more
Mark their words
Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs — two websites run by friends of mine who have very clearly articulated views about Islamic radicalism, and controversial ones... Read more
The only unmentionable trademark?
We alluded to this story in an earlier post. Evidently Daman Wayans’s attempt to file a trademark application for the word “Nigga” continues to hit... Read more
No more Wikipedia…
… for Patent Examiners. Trademark practitioners are, however, still stuck with it and its unpredictable effects. Originally posted 2014-08-07 16:31:44. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more
Trademark do it yourself?
Aaron Franklin, co-founder of LazyMeter — an intriguing project that’s still in Beta but is not what it sounds like — writes as follows on Seattle... Read more
How to describe a Catch 22
Michael Hall considers the PTO’s “Heads I Win, Tails You Lose” policy, by which it uses trademark registrations as evidence to refuse new applications on... Read more
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
Mutilated marks
The TTABlog tracks the latest learning on “mutilated” (incomplete) trademarks, or at least purportedly incomplete ones. You just have to read John Welch’s blog on... Read more
What’s all this I hear about geographically misdescriptive?
The TTABlog presents, in effect, a primer, based on a recent Trademark Trial and Appeal Board decision, on the concept of why you cannot register... Read more