Free TTABlog Webinar: "TTAB Update: Rules, Rulings and Ruminations" (Sept. 26th at Noon)

Yours Truly will present a webinar on recent TTAB developments on September 26th from 12 to 1 PM EST, sponsored by Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C. "Admission" is free. Register here.


The webcast will emanate from the Federal Reserve Building in beautiful downtown Boston. Among the topics to be covered are the following:

• Application of the 2017 TTAB rule changes.
• The pending challenge to the constitutionality of Section 2(a)’s bar to registration of scandalous marks.
• The expanding definition of genericness.
• The probative value of evidence of third-party use and registration.
• Payment of USPTO attorney fees in review by civil action.
• Laches, abandonment, failure-to-function and functionality (utilitarian and aesthetic)

If you have questions, send them to me at jwelch @ wolfgreenfield dot com.
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