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Reminder: "TTAB Comes to Boston" - April 9th at Boston University School of Law

Seats are still available for the TTAB's visit to Boston on the afternoon of April 9th. The Board will hear final arguments in Factory Five Racing, Inc. v. Carroll Shelby and Carroll Hall Shelby Trust, Opposition No. 91150346, as part of a program co-sponsored by the Boston Patent Law Association and Boston University Law School. The hearing will be held in the Stone Moot Court Room at the law school, at 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215.The case involves Shelby's application to register the product configuration mark shown above, for automobiles. Factory Five alleges genericness, abandonment, fraud, failure to function as a mark, and collateral estoppel. Briefs and other pertinent papers may be found here at TTABVUE.The hearing will be preceded by two presentations: Mark Robins of Nixon & Peabody (Boston) will review recent trademark decisions in the First Circuit, and Acting Chief Judge Gerard F...continue to full post

Full post as published by The TTABlog on March 26, 2010 (boomark / email).