Colleen N. Shovlin was a participant in a panel discussion at the Federal Circuit Bar Association’s conference Intersection of the PTO and the Courts 2017 held at Wayne State University in April. The panel, which also included Judge George Pologeorgis of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), discussed recent changes to the rules of practice before the TTAB, as well as the impact the recent Supreme Court decision in B & B Hardware, Inc. v. Hargis Industries, Inc. may have on the TTAB rule changes. Reising sponsored the conference, and Reising attorneys Corey M. Beaubien, E. Colin Cicotte, Jeffrey L. Doyle, Shannon K. Smith, James D. Stevens, Steve B. Walmsley and Melinda D. Zatkoff attended.
