No. 2010-1191. November 18, 2010. Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Stewart J. Bellus, Collard Roe, P.C., of Roslyn, NY, for appellant. Garrett M. Tuttle, Ballard Spahr LLP, of Denver, CO, for appellee. With him on the brief was Jeffrey J. Cowman. Before RADER, Chief Judge, LOURIE and MOORE, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM. The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board ("Board") granted the petition of Anthony's Pizza Pasta International, Inc. ("APPI")
Patent Appeal No. 6375. June 18, 1958. Chester A. Williams, Jr., Cranford, N.J. (Robert B. Harmon, Washington, D.C., of counsel) for appellant. Clarence W. Moore, Washington, D.C., for the Commissioner of Patents. Before JOHNSON, C.J., and O'CONNELL, WORLEY, and RICH, JJ. O'CONNELL, Judge. This is an appeal from the decision of the Assistant Commissioner of Patents, 112 USPQ 268, affirming the decision of the Examiner of Trademarks and refusing registration of appellant's mark for sewing machines
(a) (1) The testimony of witnesses in inter partes cases may be submitted in the form of an affidavit or a declaration pursuant to § 2.20 and in conformance with the Federal Rules of Evidence, filed during the proffering party's testimony period, subject to the right of any adverse party to elect to take and bear the expense of oral cross-examination of that witness as provided under paragraph (c) of this section if such witness is within the jurisdiction of the United States, or conduct cross-examination
(a) The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board will issue a trial order setting a deadline for each party's required pretrial disclosures and assigning to each party its time for taking testimony and presenting evidence ("testimony period"). No testimony shall be taken or evidence presented except during the times assigned, unless by stipulation of the parties approved by the Board, or upon motion granted by the Board, or by order of the Board. The deadlines for pretrial disclosures and the testimony periods