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... directly impacts one of the most important strategic decisions a trademark litigator makes: whether to oppose (cancel) someone’s trademark in a Trademark Office’s administrative proceeding or sue that party in a district court. The issue came from B&B Hardware Inc. v. Hargis Industries Inc. et al., and is framed as follows: whether an earlier ruling by U.S. Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB or Board) on the registration question should preclude a later, opposite confusion ...