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PTAB/USPTO Update - September 2024

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Last month, Director Kathi Vidal posted on her blog about global efforts to address climate change through sustainable innovation and about USPTO resources to support the military community....more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Trademark Insights: What the First Precedential TTAB Expungement Decision Means for You

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As a trademark applicant, encountering a prior registration that obstructs your path to registration is never a pleasant experience (nor for your attorneys who have to inform you about it). The frustration only intensifies...more

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

If a Good is not a Good, then a Trademark is not a Trademark

The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) adopted a new rule for evaluating whether non-syndicated news columns are “goods in trade” under the Lanham Act in In re The New York Times Company, a precedential opinion issued on...more

Harris Beach PLLC

USPTO Confirms Lizzo's DNA Test and Reverses Refusal to Register "100% That B*tch"

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The United States Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) recently issued a precedential decision clarifying the circumstances under which an artist can obtain a trademark registration...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

The Trademark Trial And Appeal Board Rules U.S. Cheesemakers Can “Say, Gruyere!”

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A recent decision of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”) highlights the overlap between trademark law and food regulatory law as well as the United States’ and Europe’s different approaches to Geographic Indications...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

MarkIt to Market® - May 2020: One of These Things is Not Like the Other: Limiting Disclaimers Within Classes of Services

In a precedential decision earlier this month, the TTAB found that a disclaimer of a term is required as to all services in a Class if it is descriptive as to any services in that Class. This decision appears to contravene...more

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