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
Tag: TTAB
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Upper crust: the POCKET SANDWICHES (and maybe croissants) saga (Part 2 of 2)
I owe this essay to everyone who believed in creating a dream, and helped build his or her own company into the company we almost... Read more