Panel Rejects Arthrex-Type Challenge To Composition Of Trademark Board

Mealey's (September 2, 2021, 1:24 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a Sept. 1 decision upholding cancellation by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) of the “Schiedmayer” trademark, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals found that “the statutory scheme governing” TTAB decision-making “is not subject to the” same constitutional defects identified and remedied by the U.S. Supreme Court in the patent case of United States v. Arthrex, Inc., 141 S. Ct. 1970 (2021)....