Full Description
Now completely updated, this one-of-its-kind treatment provides invaluable analysis and practical insights from an array of experienced attorneys who practice before the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
This edition considers all relevant case law, as well as the 2021 and 2023 changes to the Board's rules. Every chapter clearly describes and analyzes a separate facet of Board practice and concludes with a valuable checklist of items for practitioners to bear in mind during each stage of a Board proceeding. Topics include:
Inter partes matters and prefiling considerations
Pleadings and commencement of proceedings
Disclosures and discovery
Motion practice
Trial procedures and rules of evidence
The use of experts
Briefs on final hearing and oral argument
Appeals from final TTAB decisions
Settlement, alternative dispute resolution, and accelerated case resolution
Ex parte appeals
Ethical issues when practicing before the Board
