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... has to give himself injections 3 times a day. He was living in Albany for 4 1/2 years with no problems when his building was sold and everyone was evicted last May. He' ... month the police told him he had to leave by next week. His new parole officer is no help. This man has given the police over 30 different addresses to check and ... telephone he needs for his medical conditions. We tried to work it out with the DA's Office but I was told today that no exceptions would be made. So we are going to sue. ...

... requested information had been gathered and would be preserved; --the RIAA lawyers falsely implied that the Attorney General's office had failed to "meet and confer" with them prior to making the motion to quash, even though the AG' ... interrogatories on Plaintiffs and conduct telephonic depositions of the individuals who investigated the seventeen John Does named in this lawsuit to determine 1) what their investigative practices are and 2) whether they have any additional information with which to ...

... names. (e.g., MISS NUDE KENTUCKY), arguing that the PTO's position was clearly inconsistent with prior and present practice of the Office. The Board observed that third-party registrations, while not establishing binding precedent, "may in general be given some weight ... portion of applicant's mark" and questionably concluded that the involved marks "are similar in commercial impression." (TTABlogged here). [Part 2 of this two-part posting will appear tomorrow.] Text Copyright John L. Welch 2007.

... 18, 2002. Teledyne was "conspicuously silent" regarding its reasons for the 44-month delay. Instead it took "the tack that laches does not apply due to the inevitability of confusion." The Board found that Teledyne's inaction constituted "unreasonable delay," and the question ... for cancellation, Respondent failed to prove that material prejudice that would support a laches defense]. TTABlog Update: The CAFC affirmed this decision on December 6, 2006 (blogged here). Copyright John L. Welch 2006.

... Adjudication and Review ("ODARs") in the U.S. and its territories, the Tampa hearing office ranked in the bottom fifth at 120th with a 593 day waiting time for the average disability ... does not include the time that the system eats up during their Initial applications for disability benefits and their first appeal, called Reconsideration. These 2 ... Social Security Disability benefits to get a decision from a Judge. Copyright (c) 2008 by John V. Tucker and Tucker & Ludin, P.A. All rights reserved ...

... in your background in order to be charged with a felony DUI. If that was true, this Chicago Police Officer would not have been charged with Aggravated DUI, a felony in Illinois: May 12, ... the Cook County Criminal Courthouse where Cook County Assistant State's Atty. John Dillon announced his indictment on two counts each of reckless homicide and aggravated ... No, you don't have to have a big tragedy like the Chicago Police Officer where people died. Nor do you have to have a BAC(Blood/Breath Alcohol ...

... who's life is technically over"- Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis discussing the 2 deaths involving a Chicago Police Officer Accussed of DUI Well there you have it, words from the Chicago Police ... 're authorized to use deadly force. And when you have that authority and that responsibility, it does hold you to a higher standard than John Q. Citizen who you might live beside," Weis said. "So is it fair? Perhaps not. But that's part of the oath when you become police officer. You are not the ...

... [That's pretty darn close - ed.] It found that they are not. [M]erely because two products are attached or used together does not necessarily mean they are closely related. Consumers do not purchase an automobile without tires, and then later go looking for ... with the concurrence. How does an Examining Attorney or a USPTO law office have the authority to decide that he, she, or it will side with an applicant to try to get the TTAB to overturn a Board precedent? Text Copyright John L. Welch 2009.

... soda water would include grocery stores and convenience stores, "but not a dentist's office." Moreover, even if Applicant's goods were to be sold next to other dental products ... ) [the fact that two products are sold in the same large store does not mean they are related for Section 2(d) purposes.] Dean C. Vafiadis, D.D.S. ... sufficient to distinguish applicant's mark from registrant's mark." The Board therefore extracted the refusal to register from the PTO's jaw. Text Copyright John L. Welch 2007.

... a)(1)(i)]. For purposes of my blogs, I refer to this as the "first group" of drawers. And, at the request of a police officer and at the direction and supervision of a physician, a medical laboratory technician or medical technologist as classified by civil ... as the "second group" of drawers. When the blood draw is done by someone in the second group of drawers, what exactly does at the "direction and supervision of a physician" mean? Recall, those in the second group of drawers may only draw at ...