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TPAC Meeting This Friday Will Explore Ramifications of Bose Decision

The Trademark Public Advisory Committee (TPAC) will hold a public meeting on Friday morning, November 20, 2009, at USPTO Headquarters, Madison Auditorium, Concourse Level, 600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, VA 22314. The meeting will be run from 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM and will be webcast.[Agenda here]. An important area for discussion will be the ramifications of the CAFC's fraud decision in Bose for PTO and TTAB operations.TTAB Acting Chief Judge Gerard Rogers will discuss TTAB matters beginning at 10:15 AM:Discussion of current TTAB speed statistics and case volume statistics.Status report on getting TBMP up to date, easily searchable and in HTML.Report on current status of Accelerated Case Review: 1. What is the current level of usage? 2. Will or should there be developed more procedures or structure available to potential users of ACR?What steps has the TTAB taken, and what steps (if any) does it plan to take, in the wake of the Federal Circuit decision in In re Bose Corp...continue to full post

Full post as published by The TTABlog on November 18, 2009 (boomark / email).