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...

Top Ten TTAB Decisions of 2007
John Welch of the TTAB Blog gives us the Top Ten for 2007 in two installments.  The First is here, and the Second is here.

Trademark Zombies!!!
Jon Welch reports on a recent GM loss before the TTAB, and reports on an interesting phenomenon — a company that attempts to resurrect abandoned trademarks. See Finding Old “LASALLE” Automobile Mark Abandoned, TTAB Dismisses General Motors’ Opposition for Lack of Priority

“Scandalousness” remains a lightning rod at the TTAB
John Welch reports on an interesting, not quite safe for home viewing case called Boston Red Sox Baseball Club Limited Partnership v. Brad Francis Sherman in which the TTAB sustained an opposition to a trademark brought by the Boston Red Sox, owners of the RED SOX mark, regarding a mark we will not name here [...

Registration of LAWYERS.COM Trademark Denied
As evidence that the term ?lawyers? is generic, at least from a trademark perspective, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (?TTAB?) recently affirmed the Trademark Office?s refusal to register the mark LAWYERS...

Party defaulting before district court and enjoined cannot attack registration via cancellation
In a decision this week, the Federal Circuit held that a party against whom a default judgment was entered in a trademark infringement case before a district court cannot thereafter petition to cancel the registration at issue before the TTAB...