JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Effective January 18, 2025, the USPTO will increase government fees for certain trademark and service mark related filings and requests. Fee changes relating to the Madrid Protocol designations at the USPTO and for renewals of WIPO will take effect on February 18, 2025. By: Haug Partners LLP

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 1, 2025

In March 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that a service mark owner with all of its physical assets located along the Pacific coast could maintain a suit for service mark infringement against a company using a similar mark, on the same services, whose physical assets were all located along the Atlantic coast.

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The TTABlog

MARCH 18, 2025

88681779 (March 14, 2025) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Angela Lykos). b)(2) states: "A service mark specimen must show the mark as used in [1] the sale of the services, including use in the performance or rendering of the services, or [2] in the advertising of the services. Welch 2025.

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 9, 2025

Weiss provided no evidence that consumers clicking the BUY NOW buttons on her website, upon being re-directed to a product description on a third-party vendor website where they may then purchase the product from that vendor, will perceive that Applicant herself is providing online retail store services. The Franklin Investment Corp.

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The TTABlog

JULY 2, 2024

Other: TTAB Posts June 2024 Hearing Schedule The Last Two Slides from My INTA Presentation>/a> "MEET THE BLOGGERS" Postponed Until 2025 S.D. Michael Keyes: "Will Bad Spaniels' New 'Disclaimer' Keep VIP Products Out Of The Doghouse?"

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