Discovery Before the TTAB: Interrogatories Document Requests and Admissions in Trademark Oppositions and Cancellations: A Comprehensive Guide
53 questions
53 questions on discovery before the TTAB, answered and cited by the UpLaw editorial team.
- Are contention interrogatories allowed at the TTAB?
- Can a party complain that discovery into its own broadly pleaded claims is disproportionate?
- Can a TTAB judge participate in the discovery conference?
- Can I ask a party to admit likelihood of confusion in an interrogatory?
- Does filing a motion to compel stop all deadlines at the TTAB?
- How does proportionality work differently at the TTAB?
- How does the TTAB handle electronically stored information?
- How do you count subparts against the TTAB's 75-request cap?
- How do you file a motion to compel at the TTAB?
- How do you get discovery from a non-party in a TTAB proceeding?
- How do you keep TTAB discovery costs under control?
- How is confidential information protected at the TTAB?
- How long is the TTAB discovery period?
- How many depositions can I take at the TTAB, and how do foreign witnesses work?
- How many interrogatories, document requests, and admissions can I serve at the TTAB?
- How should a party respond to TTAB discovery requests?
- How should discovery be targeted to the DuPont likelihood-of-confusion factors?
- How should document requests be drafted now that the TTAB caps them at 75?
- How should requests for admission be drafted?
- In what order should the written discovery devices be served at the TTAB?
- Is there a duty to supplement TTAB discovery responses?
- Is there a penalty for wrongly denying a request for admission?
- What are initial disclosures at the TTAB and when are they due?
- What are interrogatories best used for in a TTAB proceeding?
- What are the most common mistakes in TTAB discovery?
- What are the risks of over-designating material as confidential at the TTAB?
- What did the 2017 amendments change about TTAB discovery?
- What discovery is needed for a descriptiveness or acquired distinctiveness fight?
- What discovery proves priority of use in a TTAB proceeding?
- What documents matter most in a TTAB proceeding?
- What does a good discovery answer look like in a trademark proceeding?
- What does a well-executed TTAB discovery plan look like?
- What happens if a party fails to respond to requests for admission?
- What happens if a party simply ignores TTAB discovery requests?
- What happens if a party skips initial disclosures at the TTAB?
- What interrogatories should an opposer serve in a trademark opposition?
- What is the advice-of-counsel waiver trap in TTAB proceedings?
- What is the difference between a discovery deposition and a testimony deposition at the TTAB?
- What is the difference between a trademark opposition and a cancellation?
- What is the thirty-one-day rule for serving TTAB discovery?
- What is the TTAB and what can it actually decide?
- What is the TTAB discovery conference and is it mandatory?
- What must a petitioner prove for abandonment, and what discovery gets there?
- What must a plaintiff establish to bring a TTAB proceeding?
- What must be proven for fraud on the USPTO, and how does discovery target it?
- What sanctions can the TTAB impose for discovery abuse?
- What should the parties cover at a TTAB discovery conference?
- What three sources of law govern TTAB discovery?
- When must expert disclosures be made at the TTAB?
- Why are requests for admission so powerful at the TTAB?
- Why do the pleadings determine the scope of TTAB discovery?
- Why is discovery effectively the trial in a TTAB proceeding?
- Why is Rule 37(c)(1) estoppel especially dangerous at the TTAB?