Vicki Roberts is not only an author, an actress and a TV producer, she is also a US "Celebrity Attorney", as detailed on her home page .
Her domain name [irestmycase.com] dates back to 1999.
On October 24, 2005, Ms. Roberts applied for the registration as a service mark of the Word Mark -in non-standard character form- "IRESTMYCASE" for legal services, under Serial No. 76649075.
After several back and forth Office Actions, replies, refusal decisions and Appeals of the PTO's refusal, Ms. Roberts lost her case before the TTAB (Refusal admitted,Ex parte appeal, 2008/05/02: , from where the following quotes are taken) on the following grounds:
- "www.irestmycase.com clearly is intended to indicate the address for applicant's website" [...] and [not] used to indicate the source of applicant's
Posted by: Amit Zuckerstein in USPTO, United States, United Kingdom, UK-IPO, TTab, Trademarks, trademark, private copying, Patent Legislation, Inventors, indefinite articles, ICANN, Domain names, domain name tasting, defences, cyberlaw, Copyright defences, copyright, consultation, claims, blogging, Australia on
Jan 21, 2008
I'd like to share 10 IP related blog posts that caught my eye in the previous week.
Patents
1. Dennis Crouch, in his blog "PatentlyO", writes about one of the suggested changes mentioned in the Senate report on patent reform and in particular to the elimination of
Starting from today, my colleague Amit Zuckerstein and I will summerize posts of IP blogs that we like. Today is January 11st summary, and it is short:
Patently-O:
1. A new Intellectual Property Symposium is coming up in April 15-16 in San Jose with EETimes as the main sponsor. The price is $1,795 but Patently-O readers get $100 discount.
2. A new patent toolbar is available
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