The TTABlog

MARCH 12, 2024

Abundance had a license from Mrs. Patricia Dampier to use the mark MRS. COLORADO for its beauty pageant, but that license was terminated in 2015. Respondent was permitted to use the mark until December 2017. In March 2018, Abundance filed its Section 1(a) application to register the mark, claiming use since 2008.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Introduction A mark represents the institution or company to which it belongs and serves as a means of differentiating goods or services among individuals. Marks can be of various types i.e., word marks, service marks, logos, symbols, series marks, etc [1]. 1] Acharya, M. 2022, February 28).

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The TTABlog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Andrusiek's "actual" trademark use on comic books did not begin until 2017, but from 2006 he used the term as the name of a character, which the Board accepted as use analogous to trademark use, leading to the award of priority to Andrusiek.

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The TTABlog

AUGUST 18, 2022

The fact that TMRR created the mark two years earlier and "promoted the mark" in seeking an entity that would offer the services does not mean it owned the mark. of Veterinary Sports Med. & Rehab. 3d 1023, 123 USPQ2d 1024, 1028 (Fed.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In 1997, Beasley obtained a New Jersey state service mark for THE EBONYS. 4,170,469 [the “’469 mark”]). In 2013, Beasley filed a petition with the TTAB to cancel the ’469 mark, contending that Howard had defrauded the PTO. In 2012, Howard registered THE EBONYS as a federal trademark with the U.S.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

–Kat Eschner, The Story of Hollywood’s Most Famous Lion (2017). Here in a nutshell is the query the Court addressed: 16 Under Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation 2017/1001, trade marks which are devoid of any distinctive character shall not be registered. There’s no roar quite like a Nittany Lion’s!

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Because Crossfirst's filing date was in 2019 and California's in 2017, California had priority. Of course, since the involved services are identical in part, the Board must presume that the channels of trade and classes of consumers for the identical services overlap.

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