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Vetements Urges the Supreme Court to Reconsider Trademark Protection for Foreign Words

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Vetements Group AG (“Vetements”), a Swiss luxury brand that sells expensive, reimagined clothing, recently petitioned the Supreme Court to review a Federal Circuit decision in In re: Vetements Grp. AG, Case Nos. 2023-2050,...more

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MarkIt to Market® - February 2023: 2(c) or Not 2(c)?

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Late last week, the USPTO issued Examination Guide 1-23 which establishes guidelines for USPTO Examining Attorney compliance with Section 2(c) of the Lanham Act. The Guide provides a framework for examining certain types of...more

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MarkIt to Market® - February 2023

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Thank you for reading the February 2023 issue of Sterne Kessler's MarkIt to Market® newsletter. This month, we discuss Section 2(c) of the Lanham Act in relation to the Supreme Court's pending review of the TRUMP TOO SMALL...more

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Is “Booking.com” Generic? We’ll Booking.See

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By Andy Halaby The Supreme Court’s decision in United States Patent & Trademark Office v. Booking.com to take up whether booking.com is generic, and thus unprotectable as a trademark, is intriguing....more

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MarkIt to Market - February 2019: Trademark Practice Update: Outrageous! Disgraceful! Appalling!...or is it? SCOTUS to Decide the...

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U.S. trademark attorneys received a New Year’s surprise last month when the Supreme Court of the United States agreed to hear Iancu v. Brunetti, the case that should determine the availability of federal trademark...more

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The Price of Success: Fourth Circuit Affirms PTO Award

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A party appealing a PTO decision must pay the PT0's expenses regardless of the applicant's success. Booking.com successfully challenged the United States Patent and Trademark Office's ("PTO") refusal to register its mark...more

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Disparaging, Immoral and Scandalous Trademarks in the Supreme Court: Beyond Tam to Brunetti

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This blog has followed the evolving judicial views concerning disparaging trademarks, culminating in the Supreme Court’s decision in in Matal v. Tam, 137 S. Ct. 1744 (June 19, 2017)....more

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Intellectual Property Bulletin - Winter 2017

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A Smooth Patch in a Rough Road? Governmental Transition and Intellectual Property - Whenever a new Congress convenes, some IP issues come to the fore while others take a back seat. Transition to a new administration in the...more

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Supreme Court Grants Cert. in USPTO Appeal of Slants Decision: Whether The Ban On Offensive Trademarks Violates The First...

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The Supreme Court granted the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s petition for certiorari in In re Tam, 117 USPQ2d 1101 (Fed. Cir. 2016). In that case, the USPTO denied registration of an application to register the...more

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Trademark Red Tape: Incoming Fee Increases And Sweeping TTAB Rule Changes

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Disparaging Marks Still Held in Abeyance. As an update to our last Trademark Red Tape, the USPTO, which has now filed a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court in In re Tam with respect to the...more

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Pro Football Calls SCOTUS Audible

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As we noted here last week, the Director of the USPTO filed a petition for writ of certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court requesting that it review the Federal Circuit’s en banc decision, In re Tam. That decision held Section...more

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In re Tam Redux: The PTO seeks Certiorari

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On April 20, 2016, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) filed a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Federal Circuit seeking Supreme Court review of that Court’s decision in In re Tam, 117 USPQ2d 1001...more

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USPTO to SCOTUS: SOS on the Lanham Act ASAP

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On April 20, 2016, the USPTO made it official: It formally requested the U.S. Supreme Court to review the en banc Federal Circuit decision that held Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act violated the First Amendment. At issue...more

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