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21 Apr 2015, 8:56 am by Steve Baird
” Shape of Goods is Functional and Must Not Be Included as Part of Claimed Trademark: This portion of the refusal relates back to the incapability refusal discussed above, but the Examiner labels the shape of the Big Green Egg with the dreaded F-Word: “[T]he shape of the goods is functional. [read post]
22 Mar 2015, 11:20 pm by Steve Baird
The FURminator and Ads Touting Utility: Marking the Termination of Product Configuration Trademark Protection? [read post]
19 Mar 2015, 5:53 am
Section 2(e)(5) of the Lanham Act bars registration of a proposed mark that “comprises any matter that, as a whole, is functional. [read post]
13 Mar 2015, 2:48 am
The proposed mark comprised a "three-dimensional configuration of [a] circular ring on top of a column-shaped base with inlets and buttons. [read post]
6 Jul 2014, 5:10 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Sylvester Turner.'Getting Life': Michael Morton MemoirMichael Morton has just published a memoir about his false conviction and imprisonment for the murder of his wife and the dramatic events surrounding his nationally publicized exoneration. [read post]
14 May 2014, 10:02 pm by Donald Sutherland
Monsanto’s newly developed proprietary lines of fruits and vegetables currently sold in supermarkets use a technique called genetic marking. [read post]
12 Mar 2014, 3:59 am
Suffering from a bad case of over-reaching, Applicant Delta T applied to register the two-dimensional design shown below for "ventilating fans for commercial and industrial use," describing the mark as "a yellow triangular shape with two curved sides and rounded corners." [read post]
26 Dec 2013, 10:07 am by Roy Black
Mark O’Mara didn’t ignore this and noted that “common sense will work against my client. [read post]
25 Nov 2013, 7:22 pm by Dennis Crouch
By Dennis Crouch A group of sixty US intellectual property law professors have signed a letter to Congress supporting anti-troll patent reform legislation. [read post]
11 Sep 2013, 4:42 am by Lisa Larrimore Ouellette
, by Mark Lemley ("[T]he [Supreme] Court is unlikely to find a constitutional right to jury trial on issues of patent validity, and certainly not the broad right of the sort that is now common practice.")Strategic Patent Acquisitions, by Fiona Scott Morton & Carl Shapiro ("We report data on patent litigation activity initiated by patent assertion entities and discuss the tactics used by these entities to monetize the patents they acquire.")Predatory Patent Litigation,… [read post]
14 Aug 2013, 2:50 am by John L. Welch
Determinations made by an Examining Attorney regarding examination requirements, such as the acceptability of an identification of goods or of the drawing of the mark, do not constitute statutory grounds for refusal and therefore cannot form the basis of an inter partes challenge to registration.Functionality: The Board applied the CCPA's Morton-Norwich analysis, recently cited by the CAFC in In re Becton, Dickinson & Co., 102 USPQ2d 1372 (Fed. [read post]
23 Jul 2013, 11:03 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The aftermath of the Michael Morton exoneration has cost Williamson County more than half a million dollars, reported the Austin Statesman (July 22), mostly in legal fees surrounding the court of inquiry but also for the prosecution of the real killer, Mark Norwood, whose DNA was found at the scene on a belatedly tested bloody handkerchief. [read post]
21 Feb 2013, 4:58 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Kepple goes through a whole series of how people cheat in life and it isn’t cheating if you get away with it. [read post]
28 Jan 2013, 3:33 am by John L. Welch
Functionality: The Board applied the Morton-Norwich factors in considering the functionality of the design (In re Morton-Norwich Prods., Inc., 213 USPQ 9 (CCPA 1982)):1. [read post]
22 Oct 2012, 7:01 pm
I can't tell you if they truly mark them up, but I know those companies do pretty well for themselves. [read post]
5 Oct 2012, 9:25 am
Thursday marked the first anniversary of Michael Morton's release after 25 years of wrongful imprisonment. [read post]
13 Sep 2012, 9:00 am by David Bernstein
Fuller: 1888-1910 (1995);Howard Gillman, The Constitution Besieged: The Rise and Demise of Lochner Era Police Powers Jurisprudence (1993); Morton J. [read post]