IPNews® – The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board recently rejected claims of fraud on the PTO in connection with a musician’s federal registration for the name of the Mexican band Grupo Pegasso.
Frontera Music had sought to cancel Federico Estevan Vasquez’s registration for the trademark, saying that he falsely claimed
IPNews® – Verde Power Supply Inc. has lost its appeal of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s denial of its attempt to register “Verde” as a trademark.
The PTO’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board affirmed a PTO examiner’s finding that the proposed trademark was merely descriptive. Verde Power Supply failed to respond to the examiner’s
IPNews® – The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board shot down a Columbus, Ohio science center’s attempt to trademark its name earlier in September, ruling that the proposed trademark “Center of Science and Industry” is merely descriptive and has not acquired enough distinctiveness.
The center’s acronym, COSI, has earned far more