{"id":3532,"date":"2010-12-23T18:50:44","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T00:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=3532"},"modified":"2010-12-23T18:50:44","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T00:50:44","slug":"citation-to-wikipedia-articles-by-trademark-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=3532","title":{"rendered":"Citation to Wikipedia Articles by Trademark Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know what &#8220;PHONECASTING&#8221; is don&#8217;t you?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I have to admit that I didn&#8217;t have a clue what &#8220;PHONECASTING&#8221; was until I listened to the oral argument of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">In re Sharp<\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0Never having heard of the term before, I was surprised that it\u00a0had been\u00a0determined to be a generic term by the TTAB.\u00a0 The Federal Circuit affirmed that decision.<\/p>\n<p>The oral argument discusses whether PHONECASTING is generic or merely descriptive.\u00a0 It is\u00a0interesting in that it discusses the fact that the TTAB relied upon WIKIPEDIA entries and the applicant&#8217;s own PCT patent application that defined PHONECASTING, among other evidence.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the oral argument here:\u00a0 [<a href=\"http:\/\/oralarguments.cafc.uscourts.gov\/Audiomp3\/2010-1148.MP3\">Listen<\/a>].\u00a0 The discussion of the Wikipedia articles takes place at about the 17:30 and 24:30 minute marks in the oral argument.<\/p>\n<p>The TTAB opinions are available [<a href=\"http:\/\/des.uspto.gov\/Foia\/ReterivePdf?flNm=78765022-08-31-2009&amp;system=TTABIS\">here<\/a>] and [<a href=\"http:\/\/des.uspto.gov\/Foia\/ReterivePdf?flNm=78765022-10-08-2009&amp;system=TTABIS\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Circuit Rule 36 affirmance is available here: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafc.uscourts.gov\/images\/stories\/opinions-orders\/10-1148.pdf\">Read<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know what &#8220;PHONECASTING&#8221; is don&#8217;t you?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I have to admit that I didn&#8217;t have a clue what &#8220;PHONECASTING&#8221; was until I listened to the oral argument of In re Sharp.\u00a0\u00a0Never having heard of the term before, I was surprised that it\u00a0had been\u00a0determined to be a generic term by the TTAB.\u00a0 The Federal Circuit affirmed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3532"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3539,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532\/revisions\/3539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}