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TTAB Dismisses "Sopranos" Opposition: HBO Neglects to Prove Standing

The standing "hurdle" is usually easy to clear in a TTAB opposition, but it does require some effort: i.e., one has to submit some evidence to get the case off the ground, so to speak. In this opposition, Opposer Home Box Office apparently believed it had a slam-dunk fraud case based on Applicant's answer to the notice of opposition, but HBO failed to prove its own standing to oppose. As a result, the Board dismissed the opposition. ema href="http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/ttabvue-91167861-OPP-30.pdf"Home Box Office, Inc. v. Vanderbilt Trading Partnership/a/em, Opposition No. 91167861 (December 3, 2008).br /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ef_M4U2nwus/SUlaiTh7zJI/AAAAAAAACgg/QZVHqMb3Axo/s1600-h/m17063-x...continue to full post

Full post as published by The TTABlog on December 18, 2008 (boomark / email).