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Recommended Reading: "An Introduction to the New Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Rules"

By John L. Welch

In their Trademark Reporter article entitled "An Introduction to the New Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Rules" (pdf here), James R. Robinson and Kathleen E. McCarthy provide a useful summary of the new TTAB rules, with commentary on some of the decisions that practitioners will face in practicing under the new regime.The authors see the following to be the most significant changes to the TTAB Rules:The plaintiff must serve the defendant directly with the complaint to initiate the case and must file proof of serviceThe parties must hold an initial discovery conference within 30 days after the answer is served.The parties are required to make mandatory disclosures at the discovery and trial stages that were not required under the prior Rules...continue to full post

Full post as published by The TTABlog on December 20, 2007 (boomark / email).