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The Ten Worst TTAB Decisions of 2007? [Part 2 of 2]

By John L. Welch

Here for your reading pleasure is the second batch of the "ten worst" Board decisions of last year. The first five were TTABlogged here yesterday. As you read these postings, please bear in mind that it takes a skilled carpenter to build a barn, but any jackass can knock it down. Or so they say. I've never actually confirmed this.The Children's Inn at NIH v. Bhandari, Opposition No. 91120549 (December 17, 2007) [not precedential]. Applicant Vinod Bhandari's eight-year quest for registration of the mark KIDS INN for hotel, motel, and restaurant services ended in futility at the TTAB. Although in 1999 the Board had ruled, in an ex parte appeal, that Bhandari's mark was not confusingly similar to the registered mark CHILDREN'S INN for "lodging services for use of children and their families who are patients at NIH," the Board here sustained the opposition subsequently filed by The Children's Inn at NIH...continue to full post

Full post as published by The TTABlog on January 23, 2008 (boomark / email).