We provide legal representation to protect your trademarks in the courtroom, in arbitration, in mediation and in other dispute resolution mechanisms.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has an administrative body called the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) which hears and decides challenges to pending trademark applications through Opposition Proceedings, and registered trademarks through Cancellation proceedings.
Any individual or entity may challenge a pending trademark application, or a registered trademarks on grounds that include, but aren’t limited to:
- The mark has a likelihood of confusion with a not-abandoned mark used previously by another.
- The mark is merely descriptive of goods or services for which it is used.
- The mark is deceptively misdescriptive of goods or services for which it is used.
- The mark is primarily geographically descriptive of goods or services for which it is used.
- The mark is primarily geographically misdescriptive of goods or services for which it is used.
- The mark is primarily merely a surname.
- The mark is falsely suggests a connection another party.
- The mark is not rightfully owned by applicant at the time application was filed.
- The mark has been abandoned through at least 2 years of continuous nonuse.
- The mark is the name of a particular living individual who has not consented to registration.
- The mark is generic of goods or services for which it is used.
