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 […]
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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 […]
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But you let THEM register a trademark like that!
Michael Hall of Registration Ruminations is wrestling, as more and more trademark practitioners are, with the increasingly ubiquitous problem of inconsistency within the PTO on trademark […]
Continue reading »Victory for US GI’s Over Europe
“Geographic Indicators,” that is. The USPTO reports today that: the World Trade Organization (WTO) has released a panel report affirming the United States’ assertion that […]
Continue reading »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 […]
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Now that’s slow
The wheels of justice, they say, turn slowly. The fact that they say this does not, however, in any way assuage clients, though it does […]
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Best of 2009: “Fraud on the PTO: Is it real, or all in my mind?”
This was first posted on September 3, 2009. Big decision, via the TTABlog®: The worm, finally, finally, has turned on the issue of the cancellation […]
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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 […]
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Football Redskins live to fight another day
This story won’t die — especially judging from the prominence of related words among search terms that reach this blog. The latest, which we missed […]
Continue reading »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 […]
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