TTAB Posts April 2023 Hearing Schedule

The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (Tee-Tee-Ā-Bee) has scheduled eight (8) oral hearings for the month of April 2023. Five of the hearings will be held via video conference; three will be held "in-person" in Alexandria, VA. Briefs and other papers for each case may be found at TTABVUE via the links provided.

April 11, 2023 - 1 PM [Virtual]: In re Panini America, Inc., Serial No. 88949961 [Refusal to register  SIGNATURE SERIES for "Collectible trading cards; Sports trading cards," on the ground of genericness, or alternatively, merely descriptiveness and lack of acquired distinctiveness.  ].

April 12, 2023 - 1 PM [Virtual]: In re Garan Services Corp., Serial No. 90433219 [Section 2(d) refusal of PATCH for "Entertainment services, namely, providing on-line interactive children's stories," in view of the registered mark PATCH: THE STEAMPUNK PIRATE BEAR for "Downloadable children's books."]

April 12, 2023 - 1:30 PM [Virtual]: In re Garan Services Corp., Serial No. 90433386 [Section 2(d) refusal of STRIPES for "Entertainment services, namely, providing on-line interactive children's stories," in view of the identical mark registered for "Publication of books, of magazines, of journals, of newspapers, of periodicals, of catalogs, of brochures; Publication of electronic newspapers accessible via a global computer network."]

April 20, 2023 - 9:30 AM [In-Person]: In re Walker Edison Furniture Company LLC, Serial No. 88948009 [Refusal to register HOME ACCENT FURNISHINGS for various items of furniture, on the ground of genericness [FURNISHINGS disclaimed].]

April 20, 2023 - 12 PM [In-Person]: In re Post Foods, LLC, Serial No. 88857834 [Refusal to register the proposed color mark shown below, consisting of the colors "yellow, green, light blue, purple, orange, red and pink" for "breakfast cereals" under Trademark Act Sections 1, 2, and 45, 15 U.S.C. §§1051-1052, 1127 on the ground that the color mark is not inherently distinctive and lacks acquired distinctiveness.]

April 25, 2023 - 10 AM [In-Person]: In re Kohler Co. Serial No. 88796957 [Refusal to register POWERZONE for "shower heads" for failure to function as a trademark as used on the submitted specimens.]

April 26, 2023 - 2 PM [Virtual]: In re People Online, Inc., Serial No. 90489798 [Section 2(e)(1) mere descriptiveness refusal of PEOPLE ONLINE for various Internet-related software and services.]

April 27, 2023 - 12 PM [Virtual]: Campari America LLC v. Skyyguard, Corp., Opposition No. 91246989 [Section 43(c) opposition to registration of SKYYGUARD & design for "General residential and commercial roofing contracting services" on the grounds of likelihood of dilution of the registered mark SKYY for vodka, lack of bona fide intent, and nonuse.]

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Text Copyright John L. Welch 2023.