District Court Consent Order Settling Case Does Not Require Vacatur of TTAB Decision: TTAB | Practical Law
In The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama v. William Pitts, Jr., an augmented panel of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) denied the opposers' request to vacate an earlier TTAB decision dismissing their opposition to an application to register the HOUNDSTOOTH MAFIA trademark despite a district court's final consent order settling an action reviewing that earlier TTAB decision.