Category Archives: trademark application

USPTO says no to Google’s Nexus One

By tmbc | Published: March 18, 2010
Recently, the PTO denied Google’s trademark application for NEXUS ONE, stating that “Registration of the applied-for mark is refused because of a likelihood of confusion with the mark in U.S. Registration No. 3554195.” Here, the applicant seeks registration of the mark NEXUS ONE for use in connection with “mobile phones”.  The registrant uses the mark NEXUS in [...]
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Foreign Trademark Owner Statistics

By alvin | Published: April 10, 2007
How many trademark records exists for foreign based owners? 3,625,679. Here’s the search strategy: not (“united states” Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada “New Hampshire” “New Jersey” “New Mexico” “New York” “North Carolina” [...]
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Filing Habits

By alvin | Published: March 3, 2007
For 2006, there was a total of 276,165 applications filed with the PTO {2006????[fd]}. 162,494 (58.8%) were filed as intent to use applications {2006????[fd] and (1B)[ob]}. 102,035 (36.9%) were filed as in use applications {2006????[fd] and (1A)[ob]}. 7820 (2.8%) were filed on the basis of a foreign application {2006????[fd] and (44d)[ob]}. 3606 (1.3%) were filed on the basis of [...]
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