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The Top Ten TTAB Decisions of 2010 (Part I)

For the umpteenth consecutive year, yours truly has chosen the ten TTAB decisions that he considers to be the most important and/or interesting from the previous calendar year. Since the CAFC's Bose decision in August 2009 the Board has yet to sustain a fraud claim, but last year it did issue two important fraud decisions. It also sustained a dilution claim for the first time in seven years. In an important procedural ruling, the Board made life easier for TTAB parties via a new interpretation of Rule 2.122(e) as applied to the admissibility of Internet evidence. And it provided a new twist to the "well know mark" doctrine applicable to the protection of foreign marks in this country. [This posting is in two parts, the first five entries being set out below...continue to full post

Full post as published by The TTABlog on January 26, 2011 (boomark / email).