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Category Trademarks

Trademark Enforcement Trademark Law Trademark Prosecution Trademarks

Rebutting a presumption of abandonment of a trademark due to “non-use” – Florida Patent Lawyer Blog

Written by Mark Terry What constitutes abandoning a trademark, thereby opening the door for someone else to use it? How long can you cease use of a trademark without losing trademark rights? These are common questions I field regularly…

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Mar 6, 2010

Trademark Prosecution Trademarks

Abandonment-Based Trademark Cancellation Proceedings At the U.S. Trademark Office – Florida Patent Lawyer Blog

Written by Mark Terry Can you cancel an active U.S. Trademark Registration that has been abandoned? As a Trademark Attorney practicing in Miami, Florida, I’ve been asked this question more than once by a client wanting to clear the path…

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Mar 4, 2010

Trademarks

How to Successfully Defend a Merely Descriptive Rejection of a Trademark

Written by Mark Terry In an informative decision today, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) reversed a Trademark Examining Attorney’s merely descriptive rejection. The In re Fujarek case, which I prosecuted, illustrates how to successfully defend a mere descriptiveness rejection of a trademark at…

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Jan 20, 2008

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