The TTABlog

JULY 1, 2022

16: TTAB Unsurprisingly Finds "NATURE MADE" Confusable With "MADE IN NATURE" for Fruit and Snack Products TTABlog Test: How Did These Three Recent Section 2(d) Appeals Turn Out? Yes] TTAB Affirms "EVERLAST" Refusal on Res Judicata and Section 2(d) Grounds TTABlog Test: How Did These Three Recent Section 2(d) Appeals Turn Out? [Yes]

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The TTABlog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The Board sustained an opposition to registration of the mark DANA DESIGN in the form shown below, for backpacks, hiking equipment, tents, and related goods, on the ground that the mark comprises the name of a living individual, Dana Gleason, without his consent and is therefore barred from registration by Section 2(c) of the Trademark Act.

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The TTABlog

APRIL 6, 2022

This consolidated opposition proceeding featured two companies battling over rights to the same marks for Albanian brandy. 2022 USPQ2d 292 (TTAB 2022) [precedential] (Opinion by Judge Marc A. 124 USPQ2d 1028, 1033-34 (TTAB 2017). 1 USPQ2d 1139, 1142 (TTAB 1986). 2021 USPQ2d 831, at *18 (TTAB 2021). ADOL Sh.p.k.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 9, 2021

A step-by-step guide to the trademark Registration process and timelines. Jump to: Trademark Timeline Overview. Q: What happens once I file a trademark application? Trademark Intake Form. Trademark Search. Trademark Application Preparation. Third-party Opposition. trademark TIMELINE OVERVIEW.

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The TTABlog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In an exhaustive and exhausting decision, the Board sustained an opposition to registration of the mark HME in the stylized from shown below, for various types of pipes and other building products, finding confusion likely with opposer's mark KME for overlapping goods. KME Germany GmbH v. Zhejiang Hailiang Co.,

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The TTABlog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Finding Applicant Salud Natural Mexicana's long period of nonuse of its mark EUCALIN for nutritional supplements to be excusable, the Board dismissed this Section 2(d) opposition because Opposer ARSA Distributing was unable to prove priority. 2022 USPQ2d 887 (TTAB 2022) [precedential] (Opinion by Judge Christen M. Who Owned the Mark?:

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 3, 2024

A number of trademark practitioners believe that the TTAB should be issuing more precedential decisions. 34: TTAB Dismisses Monster Energy's Section 2(d) Claim On Summary Judgment Due to DIssimilarity of Design Marks Precedential No. 16: TTAB Finds Guitar Shape for Hotel to be Inherently Distinctive Precedential No.

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 5, 2023

24: "PURPLE RAIN" for Dietary Supplements Falsely Suggests a Connection with Prince, Says TTAB Section 2(b) - Governmental Insignia: Precedential No. 19: TTAB Affirms Section 2(b) Refusals of Orange County "Unofficial" Insignia Section 2(c) - Consent of living individual Precedential No.

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 5, 2024

The TTABlogger has once again chosen the ten (10) TTAB (Tee-Tee-Ā-Bee) decisions that he considers to be the most important and/or interesting from the previous calendar year (2023). 2d 631 (TTAB 2023) [precedential] (Opinion by Judge Melanye K. Curtin v, United Trademark Holdings, Inc. TTABlogged here ].

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”) found that there was no likelihood of confusion between the “SMOKES & Design” mark owned by Fancy Pants Products, LLC (“Applicant”), generally used in connection with cannabis products, and the “SMOK” mark owned by Shenzhen IVPS Technology Co. Shenzhen IVPS Tech.

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