Intellectual Property Law

A Test of Your Generic (Trademark) Sensibility
The TTABlog® today offers up a list of Trademark Trial and Appeal Board ("TTAB") decisions addressing genericness as a test to trademark practitioners and the public on the TTAB?s seemingly schizophrenic approach to addressing genericness refusals...

Trademark Cancellation: Presumption of Validity includes Presumption of Acquired Distinctiveness for Marks Registered under Section 2(f)
Cold War Museum v. Cold War Air Museum (Fed. Cir. 2009) In 2004, the appellant registered the service mark THE COLD WAR MUSEUM under Section 2(f) after providing evidence that the mark had acquired distinctiveness through "substantially exclusive and continuous...

Forces Storm Alleged Drug Lord Christopher "Dudus" Coke's Hideout in Trivoli Gardens, Jamaica
Jamaican Police and Soldiers Have Met Fierce Resistance During Raid of Coke's Stronghold

TTABlog Quarterly Index: January 2008 - March 2008The TTABlog®
For those who haven't noticed, e-mail subscriptions to the TTABlog are available. Just enter your e-mail address in the box on the right to receive a daily update via Feeblitz.Section 2(a) - Deceptiveness:TTAB Affirms 2(a) Deceptiveness Refusal of "MINK BIKINI" for Minkless Clothing Finding "MINK" Deceptive and Deceptively Misdescriptive for Clothing, TTAB Affirms 2(a) and 2(e)(1) RefusalsSection 2(a) - False Connection: TTAB Reverses 2(a) Refusal of "L'OREAL PARIS" for Aloe Vera Drinks: PTO Fails to Show False Connection with French Cosmetics CompanySection 2(d) - Likelihood of Confusion: TTAB Grants 2(d) Summary Judgment: "MEIER'S" and "MEYER VINEYARD" for Wine Confusingly Similar TTAB Finds Design Marks for Motorcycles Confusingly Similar: What Say You? Fame Dominates as TTAB Sustains "PLAYBOY" Opposition to "PLAY BODY" for Clothing Precedential No...

Hualapai Tribe opens a new front in its long running trademark battle over GRAND CANYON WEST
The "Skywalk"at the Hualpai Tribe's Grand Canyon WestI previously wrote (link here) about the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board decision in the opposition filed by Grand Canyon West Ranch, LLC (?Ranch?) against the Hualapai Tribe over the Indian tribe?s attempt to register the mark GRAND CANYON WEST...

2011 TTAB Summary - From Bibles to Obscene Bottles and a New REDSKINS Disparagement Case
The always excellent TTAB Blog has published its compilation of the 37 precedential decisions from the Trademark Trial and Appeal board from 2011.  Blog post here.  Highlights include a decision finding the design of a bottle in the shape of a fist with a raised middle finger to be scandalous or immoral, and another finding that NKJV has achieved acquired distinctiveness for bibles...

Child Support
Finding the Noncustodial Parent ( Deadbeat Dads )

Stock Splits and Reverse Stock Splits
How splits can affect stock value

Coke
Sued Over Marketing of "VitaminWater"