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TTABlog Quarterly Index: October - December 2021

The TTABlog

Section 2(a) - Deceptiveness: TTAB Affirms Section 2(a) Deceptiveness Refusal of SMART SUTURE for Bandages Section 2(a) - False Suggestion of a Connection : Precedential No. 31: TTAB Affirms Section 2(a) Refusal of "NATO" for Tents, for Falsely Suggesting a Connection With. & Design" for Beer? Guess What? Guess What?

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TMSR Session 2: Administrative Agencies and Specialized Courts

43(B)log

The business of the PTO is granting patents/TM. But they have virtually no experience, except in TTAB, with other side of the equation, remedies, 1A limitations, etc. TTAB is better suited, b/c at least get microcosm of LOC cases b/c of competing TM claimants. But caveat that it’s not clear that Amazon has that system.