"There is no per se rule that all alcoholic beverages are related. [It just turns out that way - ed.]." - @ttablog.bsky.social

TTABlog Test: Is "1849 BOURBON" for Distilled Spirits Confusable With "1849" for Wine? thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/10/ttab...

Today in design patents: D1097449, D1097450, D1097451, and D1097452 all issued for a fruit-shaped gummy ring. I'll let y'all discuss which one is the best and why it is clearly pineapple. #DesignPatents

Just FYI, here are my personal beliefs on the use of large scale violence. 1. Violence tends to be self-replicating, and so should be avoided as much as possible. All violence has the potential to entrench itself.

Decided to ask Lexis and Westlaw AI a basic question - identify which circuits had courts citing a case had before a certain date. Westlaw outright failed and Lexis hallucinated.

Today in design patents: D1097857 issued for a jewelry item. #DesignPatents

Today in design patents: D1097807 issued for a lid for cosmetic jar. 100% approve sparkle color claims. #DesignPatents

Complaint: The word "trademark" appears 26 times; the word "copyright," 0. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Headline: www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Pink sky, pink water on the Mendocino Coast flic.kr/p/2rxPw5i

Patented today: a sofa that works as an emergency floatation device. US 12440033

Today in design patents: D1098304 issued for a doll. A popcorn doll should look happier. #DesignPatents

Today in design patents: D1098231 issued for an eye shield. There has to be some non-ridiculous explanation for this, right? #DesignPatents

Wine grape variety named 'Norton Blanc' US #PlantPatent 37,014 (granted today) The variety is a cross between 'Cabernet Sauvignon' and 'Norton' grapevines. Bred at Missouri State University, the grapes are said to produce a unique white wine with the aroma of fresh spring grass or fresh-cut lime.

Happy Tuesday Patent Day! The Patent Office remains open and today we have 1,221 new design patents including D1097445, issued for a snowflake-shaped pasta. #DesignPatents

Iranian artist Maryam Ashkanian embroiders images of sleeping people onto handmade pillows for her ongoing series, 'Sleep' #WomensArt

who knows what you might see published for opposition tomorrow in the Trademark Official Gazette?

morning xo

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on! Boss: I have an idea

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand: Majority decision, Star Athletica.

A brief summary of everything I have written on RIFs to date. RIFs are insanely complex and procedurally difficult to implement. Most RIFs are challenged on procedural grounds. 1/7 www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-pr...

Apologies! The class 35 refusal of the SCRAP IT logo was a specimen refusal, not Section 2(d).

Higher Ed in 2025 is opening your mailbox to see that your institution has sent you: 1. A Center for Teaching and Learning call to integrate AI into your classroom; and 2. An Office of Academic Integrity email encouraging you to crack down on students who use AI to cheat.

A classic locked-room mystery but it’s about where I, who am the only one here, left my coffee

"One lesson is that the history and tradition approach does not meaningfully constrain Justices even in low-political-salience areas like copyright and trademark, outside highly politicized contexts" - @rtushnet.bsky.social

TTABlog Test: Which One of These Four Section 2(d) Appeals Was Successful? thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/10/ttab...

I just keep coming back to this, the most obvious lacunae in every conversation about “incorporating AI” into our classrooms: no one—literally NO ONE—can explain how it improves the work of learning & knowledge-making. There is, in fact, overwhelming evidence to the contrary. This whole thread.

Three years into the AI Wars and not a single company has been brought down by copyright litigation. By this time into the P2P Wars, Napster had already been obliterated. When will the people who were assured that copyright would destroy AI realise they were lied to?

Gladioli today!

The place I really have to reach is where I must already be. —Ludwig Wittgenstein

U.S. Trademark Reg. (Supplemental) No. 5,106,717.

Morning glories everywhere!

PT Medisafe Files Certiorari Petition Seeking to Overturn CAFC Green Medical Glove Genericness Ruling thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/10/pt-m...

TTABlog Test: Is "TAC-O" Merely Descriptive of Food Seasonings and Cooking-Related Services? thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/10/ttab...

I used to have a mockingbird outside my window who had learned the entire car alarm song, all five movements.

How not to name your marketing agency

"I've never seen something like this in federal court" is a sentence I find myself saying over and over these days.

jawnt for a transit benefits platform: descriptive or suggestive or fanciful?

Your IP issue-spotter of the day:

D1,057,821 - issued in January for a design for an "an inflatable axolotl costume." #DesignPatents

I just heard someone on MSNBC say, "Hold on to your horses." Now, I've heard, "Hold on to your hats" and "Hold your horses." But "Hold on to your horses"?

hunky butlers, sued* for trademark infringement because it called its employees "butlers in the buff," argues "butlers in the buff" is generic for semi-clothed butler services & should be ineligible for trademark protection

Gaze upon this magnificent queen.

On Monday the Federal Circuit heard cases at Suffolk and I got the opportunity to sit in. It was amazing and it made me wish that everyone got such an opportunity to see what courts (who aren't Judge Judy) and lawyers (who aren't on Suits) do.