Best of 2008: “‘Scandalousness’ Remains a Lightning Rod at the TTAB'” (September)
This was posted on September 24, 2008: John Welch reports on an interesting, not quite safe for home viewing case called Boston Red Sox Baseball... Read more
Tag: PTO Practice
Hold the center!
John Thomas at the Pittsburgh IP Law Blog picks up on an interesting phenomenon concerning center-centric trademark registration applications: If the mark you are trying... Read more
Gadget goes gonzo
Updated (see below) in September, 2011: Firefly Digital explains the vision behind their, um, trademarks — including the one they claim a little outfit called... Read more
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... Read more
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... 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
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... 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