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A Trademark is a legally registered distinctive mark or sign which identifies goods, products or services that originate or are associated with a particular person or enterprise . A typical example of a trademark... more +

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

Womble Bond Dickinson on 7/15/2024

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

In re Post Foods, LLC: TTAB Denies Color Mark for Post’s Fruity Pebbles

BakerHostetler on 5/10/2024

The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s (Board) precedential decision to uphold a refusal to register a proposed color mark in In re Post Foods, LLC highlights the strategic and technical aspects involved in registering a...more

MarkIt to Market® - March 2024: Piling Up Successes by Avoiding Descriptive Dangers

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. on 4/2/2024

Joining a series of precedential decisions about descriptiveness, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board recently affirmed a refusal to register Sheet Pile, LLC’s (“Applicant”) mark ZPILE on the Principal Register, on the...more

Press # For Options, but Not for a Trademark Registration

McDermott Will & Emery on 11/30/2022

In a precedential opinion addressing the most fundamental requirement for trademark protection, the Trademark Trial & Appeal Board (Board) affirmed the US Patent & Trademark Office’s (PTO) refusal to register a “#” based mark...more

MarkIt to Market® - May 2020: Title of a Single Creative Work... or Something More?

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. on 6/4/2020

In a recent precedential opinion, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) tackled the often frustrating question of what it takes to acquire trademark rights in the title of a single...more

MarkIt to Market® - May 2020

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. on 6/1/2020

The May 2020 issue of Sterne Kessler's MarkIt to Market® newsletter discusses two recent precedential TTAB decisions – one regarding disclaimer scope and the other exploring how to successfully claim trademark rights in the...more

MarkIt to Market® - December 2019: Get in Sync: The Interplay Between Patent Language and Descriptive Word Marks

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. on 1/6/2020

In a recent precedential decision, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board affirmed that the mark SEQUENCING BY BINDING is merely descriptive of goods and services in Classes 1, 9, 10, and 42 related to biological analytes...more

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