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Not Just Patents Legal Services provides a very economical package for USPTO Trademark Registration and Trademark Oppositions and Cancellations. See What to Expect. Not Just Patents Trademark Attorney for more information on what steps we take to protect your rights and help you develop a strong trademark. We suggest our service and our plan-. A Not Just Patents. As part of a Plan for A Successful Trademark:. 1) Verify Inherent Strength. 2) Verify Right to Use. 3) Verify Right to Register. Time attorney&...
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m.Petition To Cancel
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Petition to Cancel or Opposition? Can you do both-. An Opposition Proceeding and then a Cancellation Proceeding if the first (Opposition) does not succeed? Not unless there are significant facts that change. An applicant who survives an opposition is entitled to move forward with use and development of its mark, without fear that the Opposer could obtain a second bite at the apple based on immaterially changed transactional facts. Orouba Agrifoods Processing v. United Food Import. A Supplemental Registra...
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m.Examples Merely Descriptive
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General Rules For Determining If A Trademark is Merely Descriptive. Extracted from USPTO Office Actions). A mark is merely descriptive under Trademark Act Section 2(e)(1). 15 USC. 1052(e)(1) , if it describes an ingredient, quality, characteristic, function, feature, purpose or use of the relevant services. In re Gyulay. 820 F2d 1216, 3 USPQ2d 1009 (Fed. Cir. 1987); In re Bed and Breakfast Registry. 791 F2d 157, 229 USPQ 818 (Fed. Cir. 1986); In re MetPath Inc. 223 USPQ 88 (TTAB 1984); In re Bright-.
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m.Counterclaims
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TRADEMARK TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD MANUAL OF PROCEDURE. TBMP 313 .01 In General. 37 CFR 2.106(b)(2). Ii) An attack on the validity of a registration pleaded by an opposer will not be heard unless a counterclaim or separate petition is filed to seek the cancellation of such registration. Iii) The provisions of 2.111 through 2.115, inclusive, shall be applicable to counterclaims. A time, not less than thirty days, will be designated within which an answer to the counterclaim must be filed. The Board cannot e...
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m.Affirmative Defenses
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Affirmative Defenses Bar The Claim. An affirmative defense assumes the allegations in the complaint to be true but, nevertheless, constitutes a defense to the allegations in the complaint. An affirmative defense does not negate the elements of the cause of action; it is an explanation that bars the claim. Gwin v. Curry. What is Not An Affirmative Defense? Failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted is not an affirmative defense. Lack of standing is not an affirmative defense. Party registra...
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m.Cancellation Steps
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WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE PETITION TO CANCEL (the opening pleading) IS FILED? STEPS FOR A TRADEMARK CANCELLATION. For a USPTO registered trademark). Registered trademarks that issued may be contested and canceled by anyone who has standing. Grounds that negates the defendant's right to registration may be raised for cancellation except that incontestable. Have a more limited list of grounds on which they can be contested. TBMP 309.03(b) Standing. 289 F2d 656, 129 USPQ 275, 280 (CCPA 1961). Where registratio...
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m.Opposition Defense
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Often Representing the Underdog). Most of our clients are small businesses trying to protect their trademarks, often from someone bigger who is claiming that the smaller businesses trademark is likely to be confused. From the potential opposer. Even if the TTAB (USPTO Trademark Trial and Appeal Board) finds that an opposer has proven that its marks are famous for purposes of likelihood of confusion, fame alone is not sufficient to establish likelihood of confusion. 75 USPQ2d 1811, 1819-. 1820 (TTAB 2005)...
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Law Office of Jerold D. Friedman. The Law Office of Jerold D. Friedman is a Social Justice Law Firm. Only select cases are published due to the sensitive nature of litigation.). Mims, et al. v. Oliver. Civil rights lawsuit against Mims’s former computer science professor, J.D. Oliver. Mims alleges that Oliver demanded sex and in return he would let her enter her own grade into the school’s grading system, or she would otherwise get an F. Mims reported Oliver’s behavior t...Case is pending.]. Gene Basler ...
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m.Incontestable Trademarks
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Incontestable" trademark is a trademark (MUST BE ALL OF THESE):. That is registered on the Principal Register (does NOT apply to Supplemental Register);. Has been in continuous use in commerce for a period of five (5) years after the date of registration (or date of publication under. 12 (15 U.S.C. 1062). Is still in use in commerce. Why is incontestability important? The validity of the registered mark;. The registration of the mark,. The owner's ownership of the mark; and. WHAT IS A 15 DECLARATION?
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m.Steps to a Trademark
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Steps for a Trademark. Virtually every business could benefit from a trademark! According to a 2013 report by the USPTO, trademarks cover a broader set of participants in the economy [than patents] because almost every firm, regardless of size, market, or business strategy, has goodwill to protect. (. The USPTO Trademark Case Files Dataset: Descriptions, Lessons, and Insights. Any word, term, name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof that are used in commerce as brand names, tag lines, slogans.