Category Archives: registration

Trademark Numbers

By alvin | Published: February 22, 2007

Just some trademark searches of interest. As of today, at 1:40 E.S.T. Number of total “live” registrations: 1,341,391 {live[ld] and `rn > “0″} Number of total “live” registrations on the principal register (including 2(f) and 2(f)-in-part registrations): 1,288,461 {live[ld] and `rn > “0″ and (principal[rg] or principal-2[rg] or part[rg])} Number of total “live” registrations on the supplemental register: 52,930 [...]

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Fisking PR release

By alvin | Published: February 16, 2007

Yet another example of a firm press release announcing the registration of its trademark by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. SaVi Media Group Receives Registered Trademark for “DynoValve(R)” SANTA ANA, CA — (MARKET WIRE) — February 16, 2007 — SAVI MEDIA GROUP, INC. (OTCBB: SVMI) announces the Trademark registration of our core emission control device, [...]

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IHOP lapsed registrations require amendment to UFOC

By alvin | Published: February 12, 2007

Now would be a good time to check up on your trademark docketing procedure. IHOP Corp. recently announced the following: IHOP Corp. (NYSE: IHP) today disclosed that it has become aware of issues relating to the lapsing of certain IHOP federal trademark and service mark registrations on file with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. As [...]

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Trademarks Are The Real Competitive Advantage

By alvin | Published: January 26, 2007

Marketers and trademark attorneys must read Professor James Conley’s article Trademarks, Not Patents: The real competitive advantage of the Apple iPod. S/N 78661217 Here’s an excerpt: Our findings overwhelmingly support the conventional wisdom that design decisions cast a big shadow on the commercial success of the product over its lifecycle. But more recently, we have found that some [...]

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Mattel most active corporate user of TEAS

By alvin | Published: January 26, 2007

According to this article from the USPTO, Mattel, Inc. is the most active user of the PTO’s Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS). The same article also announced TEAS’ one-millionth electonically filed trademark application by Donald Junck for his BAIT CRAFT trademark. Congratulation to both Donald and Mattel. Digging a bit deeper, Mattel filed 780 application in [...]

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Trademark Issues for Real Estate Developers

By alvin | Published: January 25, 2007

Article with the same title from the good folks at the Canadian Trademark Blog. Technorati Tags: trademark, registration, real estate, malls, development

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Another TM Registration Press Release

By alvin | Published: January 23, 2007

SaVi Media Group Receives Registered Trademark for “DynoValvePro(R)” Related: Turning Trademarks Into News Technorati Tags: trademark, registration, press release