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Green With Envy: When Your Color Trademark Turns Out to Be Generic
14 Nov 2025 21:38 GMT
… Federal Circuit decision upholding the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s (“TTAB”) refusal to register Medisafe … as designating a single source.
Trademark registrations for colors are excellent … tools for enforcing trademark rights, but only if …
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What is Behind Aritzia’s Bid to Register a “DUPE” Trademark?
12 Nov 2025 16:38 GMT
… if it requires, as the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board once put it, a “ … distinctiveness.
As the USPTO’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board previously held, third-party registrations … s prior practice.
Looking beyond TTAB precedent, Aritzia also grounds its …
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TTAB Says 'Gasper Roofing' TM Wrongly Denied
06 Nov 2025 21:40 GMT
… :18 PM EST) -- The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has reversed a rejection of …
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Trademark Office Confirms It - Consent Agreements Need Pants
06 Nov 2025 01:11 GMT
… between owners of conflicting trademarks often carry great weight when … recent precedential opinion of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) rejecting registration of GASPARILLA despite … of display of the trademarks. Though the TTAB agreed that the …
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BakerHostetler cements full-service offerings on West Coast with addition of key trademark and brand protection team
05 Nov 2025 18:14 GMT
… procurement, prosecution, diligence, audits, enforcement, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board proceedings, and litigation, as well … U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Trademark Public Advisory Committee. She … as well as before the TTAB, the Patent Trial and Appeal …
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TTAB’s GASPARILLA Decision Provides a (Pirate’s) Bounty of Consent Agreement Guidance
03 Nov 2025 19:13 GMT
… in the Trademark Trial & Appeal Board’s (“TTAB”) In re … registrations for its GASPARILLA trademark for parade and festival … U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (“USPTO”) refused registration on … of actual confusion.
The TTAB agreed with the Examining …
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Worried your trademark might be commercially and conceptually weak? Recent opinions by the trademark trial and appeal board indicate that could be advantageous.
26 Aug 2025 18:00 GMT
… you, the best trademarks are both creative and … unique. Such “strong” trademarks are more memorable and set … recent appeals before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), applicants for marks took … reverse refusals issued by trademark examiners. In the …
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Fed. Circ. Sends Aaron Judge Slogan TM Case To Panel
15 Nov 2025 02:41 GMT
… its merit panel review a Trademark Trial and Appeal Board decision that ruled in favor …
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Former TTAB Judge Moves To Greenberg Traurig In Calif.
23 Oct 2025 21:14 GMT
… PM EDT) -- A former Trademark Trial and Appeal Board judge has jumped from government …
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Boston Strong and Trademark Rights – Why You Can’t Own a City’s Motto
17 Oct 2025 23:11 GMT
… recent decision from the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), an application to register … ’t function as a trademark. Instead, it serves as … the problem for establishing trademark rights in the phrase. … of functioning as a trademark.
This decision sends a …