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
Tag: PTO Practice
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
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
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
Web 2.0, but nothing’s changed
Remember the silliness over the attempt by a certain attorney to secure trademark rights for CYBERLAWYER? The notable part about how that went down was... Read more
Trademark attorneys shaken AND stirred over Walther product configuration TM ruling
Who says the Commissioner of Trademarks is “Dr. No”? To the contrary, some trademark registration applications Only Live Twice — and that’s quite enough. John... 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 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
Whitewashed
Am I missing something here? Did you know that the terms “Black Power,” “Black Supremacy,” and “La Raza” (The Race) are all trademarks that have... Read more