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Posted on July 31, 2022 IP Overreaching

Upper crust: the POCKET SANDWICHES (and maybe croissants) saga (Part 2 of 2)

[stextbox id=”info”]Last week I told the story — as told through this TTAB opinion — of Carl Vennitti’s seven-year tug of war with Nestlé, maker of... Read more

Posted on May 25, 2022 Section 2(a)

Slant on The Slants

Everybody can have an IP blog.  But hardly anybody, it seems, is prepared to do the work required to blog. I refer now to the... Read more

Posted on February 24, 2022 Likelihood of Confusion

B&B Hardware: The TTAB, the trademark bloggers and the likelihood of preclusion (Updated)

A trademark case involving LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION (the legal thing, not the fun blog) got unusual Supreme Court attention last week, as you doubtless know by... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Likelihood of Confusion

Upper crust – the POCKET SANDWICHES croissants saga (Part 1 of 2)

Letters, we get letters. Sometimes people just want to share their trademark woes with me.  Sometimes they want free advice, or cheap advice, or just... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Blogging

TTABlog: Eight years of keeping tabs on the TTAB

Busy as we were last week licking our wounds from the aftermath of really bad weather, I missed the opportunity to wish a timely mazal... Read more

Posted on June 2, 2021 Likelihood of Confusion

B&B Hardware: Beyond Nuts and Bolts

I’d promised I’d wait on this, but I couldn’t, and you’ll see why.  Here’s my take on today’s Supreme Court decision in B&B Hardware v. Hargis... Read more

Sean Connery with Walther
Posted on May 28, 2021 Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on May 28, 2021 Trademark Dilution

Best of 2013: ROLEX v. ROLL-X: Permanent vacation, and sideways vindication

First published February 6, 2013. The TTAB recently ruled, based on internal reasoning that is entirely justifiable, that if you can’t afford to litigate —... Read more

Posted on December 19, 2019January 7, 2020 TTAB Practice

TTAB reminds everyone who’s in charge

The TTABlog on what every TTAB practitioner knows: The Board still elevates form over substance in one really dumb way: Several trademark practitioners on the... Read more

Posted on November 12, 2019December 16, 2019 Politics

TTAB / Al Qaeda Claim: Trademarks Make the Big Time

Sometimes we microniche bloggers get a little antsy with the self-imposed limitations on our scope. Ah, to be an early adopter! … but this was... Read more

Posted on October 17, 2019 Likelihood of Confusion

Best of 2011: Upper crust – the POCKET SANDWICHES croissants saga

First posted on July 15, 2011. Letters, we get letters. Sometimes people just want to share their trademark woes with me. Sometimes they want free... Read more

Posted on September 20, 2019 Section 2(a)

TTAB re THE SLANTS trademark: Once disparaging, always disparaging

Remember the SLANTS trademark appeal to the TTAB?  Here’s the decision (below). For the TTAB, there’s only one answer to the “disparaging” question — well,... Read more

Posted on July 27, 2016 Trademark Dilution

ROLEX v. ROLL-X: Permanent vacation, and sideways vindication

The TTAB recently ruled, based on internal reasoning that is entirely justifiable, that if you can’t afford to litigate — as far as is necessary... Read more

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The question of whether consumers are likely to be confused is the signal inquiry that determines if a trademark infringement claim is valid. I write here about trademark law, copyright law, brands, free speech (mostly as it relates to the Internet and social media). That may sound like a lot, but it's just a blog.

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