A Legal Strategist's Guide to Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Practice

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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 2017 and 2019 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

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