TTAB Decisions

We provide these decisions of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) as a service to our clients and the trademark legal community. The TTAB is the administrative panel of the USPTO that decides trademark opposition, cancellation, and ex parte appeals. Although many of these decisions are "unpublished," meaning they cannot be cited as legal precedent, we believe that these can be very helpful in learning about trademark law and how the TTAB decides such cases. The decisions of the TTAB only affect the parties' rights to register the trademark in question, and generally do not affect a party's ability to use a particular mark in the United States.

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2011-09-12 OPP 91190657 Fossil, Inc. v. Kari Foster

Opposition Sustained

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2011-09-12 EX 77761812; 77761817 Namibia Breweries Limited

Refusal Reversed in each case

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2011-09-14 EX 77775606; 77790664 AIMS Educational Foundation

Refusal Affirmed in each case

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2011-09-14 CANC 92042082 Four Seasons Dairy, Inc. v. International Gold Star Trading Corp.

Petition to Cancel Granted

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2011-09-14 EX 77262426 Cigars International, Inc.

Refusal Reversed

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2011-09-15 EX 77049126; Retail Brand Alliance, Inc.

Both Refusals Affirmed

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2011-09-15 OPP 91182937; 91118482; 91118950; 91155075 General Mills, Inc. and General Mills IP Holdings II, LLC v. Fage Dairy Processing Industry S.A.

Opposition 91155075, as to application 76016809, Sustained as to goods in class 29, but Dismissed as to goods in class 30; All Oppositions otherwise Sustained; on claim under 2(d)

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2011-09-15 EX 77694743 ING Direct Bancorp

Refusal Affirmed

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2011-09-19 EX 79055664 Luxuria, s.r.o.

Refusal Affirmed

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2011-09-19 OPPOPPCANCCANC 91162015; 92042289; 91167846; 92042289; 91167857; 91167827; 91167653; 91159912 Louis E. Kemp v. Trident Seafoods Corp. Trident Seafoods Corp. v. Louis E. Kemp

Summary judgment entered in part, dismissing first three cases

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