Maureen Kelly

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has introduced new trademark fees for 2025. These changes are designed to address increased operating costs and examination times and they will impact many routine trademark proceedings. The new rules and fees particularly pertain to goods and services identifications.

In this edition of The Precedent, we outline the recent federal circuit decision in CeramTec v. CoorsTek. Overview The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently upheld the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board's (the Board) 2022 decision to cancel CeramTec GmbH's (CeramTec) trade dress protections for the color pink in its hip joint implant components. Issues Whether the Board’s finding that CeramTec’s registered trade dress was functional based upon the Morton-Norwich factors was correct.

You can call them silly goats if you like, but these groups of goats are wise. In arid regions like Morocco, nimble goats go where vegetation is plenty - to treetops. Witness: Goats in Trees. Baaaah! This 18-month wall calendar includes 13 stunning images and even clearer grids and text. Each one features an opening spread with a six-month (July-December 2014) overview to plan the last six months of the year and rev up for 2015.