Federal Circuit Affirms TTAB Discovery Sanction Cancelling Trademark Registration | Practical Law
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board's (TTAB) entry of a default judgment cancelling the registration of G THE GOODYMAN as a sanction for the trademark owner's repeated failure to provide discovery in a TTAB cancellation proceeding. The Federal Circuit cancelled the registration despite the trademark owner's filing of a dispositive motion and the court's finding that the owner's discovery obligations were unclear because of the ambiguous language and effect of the case suspension rule (Trademark Rule 2.127(d)).