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Patent Appeals Patent Prosecution PTAB USPTO

PTAB Reverses a 35 U.S.C. §102 Rejection Today: This is Why They Did It

Written by Mark Terry This is a great Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decision that highlights in one, short decision the main arguments every patent practitioner should make when responding to a 35 U.S.C. §102 anticipation rejection. In today’s Ex Parte Farkas decision,…

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Mar 28, 2020

Trademark Law 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…

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Aug 14, 2012

Patents

PTAB Reverses a 35 U.S.C. §102 Rejection Today: This is Why They Did It

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Jul 28, 2010

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