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Merely Descriptive Issues
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Should You File Your Own Application,. Answer Your Own Refusal, or Defend Your Own Trademark Opposition? Time attorney. All trademark information Trademark Applications (applications, drawing, specimen), Office Actions, Responses to Office Actions (ROA), assignments, petitions, etc submitted to the USPTO is public information readily available to the public including any of your investors or future potential investors. Overcoming A Substantive Refusal. If an applicant is not represented by an attorney it...
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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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Counterclaims-TBMP 311
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What Does a Counterclaim Do To The Schedule of an Opposition or Cancellation? 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. 37 CFR 2.114(b)(2). Iv) The times for pleading, discovery, testimony, briefs, or oral argument will be reset or extended when necessary, upon mot...
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Comparison of Principal Register with Supplemental Register
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FEDERAL TRADEMARK REGISTRATION ON THE PRINCIPAL REGISTER CAN BOOST YOUR RIGHTS. The list below compares the Trademark Principal Register, Supplemental Register and Common Law Rights. Principal Registration of a trademark gives the most rights because it takes the basics of trademark rights from common law and boosts it by adding features. (All the YES rows are the extra features.) Supplemental Registration is valuable as well, with a few less rights. Benefits of USPTO Trademark Registration. See Why Shou...
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Notice of Cancellation and Notice of Trial Dates from USPTO
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Petition to Cancel or Opposition? Discovery Conference TBMP 411. Suggested Format for Petition to Cancel. Notice of Cancellation and Notice of Trial Dates from USPTO. Not Just Patents LLC. PO Box 18716, Minneapolis, MN 55418. Search Not Just Patents. Securing the Right IP. 7590 or email WP@NJP.legal. For Responses to Office Actions; File or Defend an Opposition or Cancellation; Trademark Searches and Applications; Send or Respond to Cease and Desist Letters. Steps to a Patent. How to Patent An Invention.
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Suggested Format for Petition to Cancel
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SUGGESTED FORMAT FOR PETITION TO CANCEL. Found at http:/ www.uspto.gov/web/forms/newform.pdf. IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE. BEFORE THE TRADEMARK TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD. In the matter of trademark registration No. State petitioner's name, address, and entity information as follows:. Name of individual as petitioner, and business trade name, if any;. OR (Name of partnership as petitioner; Names of partners;. Business address of partnership). Business address of corporation). Business ad...
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Acquired Distinctiveness
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FREE ‘ADVICE’ From the Supreme Court on Acquired Distinctiveness. As cited in footnote 13 from PARK’N FLY, INC. v. DOLLAR PARK AND FLY, INC. 469 US. 189 (1985). ACQUIRED DISTINCTIVENESS (UNDER SECTION 2(F). If a trademark is merely descriptive but the applicant has used the mark for a long time (generally more than 5 years) and believes that their use of the mark has given the mark distinctiveness, the applicant may apply to the USPTO Principal Register under Section 2(f) of 15 U.S.C. 1052. 3) applicant’...
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Notice of Cancellation and Notice of Trial Dates from USPTO
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Not Just Patents LLC. PO Box 18716, Minneapolis, MN 55418. Search Not Just Patents. Securing the Right IP. What Does Published for Opposition Mean? Extension of Time To Oppose. Latest Revision of TTAB manual (TBMP). Steps for a Trademark Opposition. Suggested Format for Petition to Cancel. Notice of Cancellation and Notice of Trial Dates from USPTO. 7590 or email WP@NJP.legal. For more information from Not Just Patents, see our other sites:. Steps to a Patent. How to Patent An Invention. Be First To File.
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General Rules About Likelihood of Confusion
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Some General Rules About Likelihood of Confusion. Please note that every trademark application is decided on its own merits and general rules may or may not apply! These General Rules are extracted from actual trademark refusals. The facts pertinent to the particular refusals have been deleted. 228 USPQ 689 (TTAB 1986), aff’d sub nom. Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce v. Wells Fargo Bank, Nat’l Ass’n. 811 F2d 1490, 1 USPQ2d 1813 (Fed. Cir. 1987) (COMMCASH and COMMUNICASH); In re Phillips-. 518 F2d 1399,...