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88681779 (March 14, 2025) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Angela Lykos). Trademark Rule 2.56(b)(2) 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.

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 9, 2025

Trademark bullies breathed a sigh of relief when, in this opposition to registration of the mark shown below for delivery of medical cannabis via car service, the Board rejected Applicant Greenersides affirmative defense of unclean hands. The Trademark Act does not refer to trademark bullying explicitly or even implicitly.

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The TTABlog

JULY 2, 2024

11: TTAB Upholds 2(a) False Connection Refusal of LEATHERNECKS for Motorcycle Club Membership Section 2(c) - Consent of Living Individual Supreme Court Upholds Constitutionality of the Trademark Act’s “Names Clause” in Affirming Refusal to Register TRUMP TOO SMALL Section 2(d) - Likelihood of Confusion: TTABlog Test: Is HOLLYWOOD COFFEE CO.

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