`Trademark Trial and Appeal Board
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`Alexandria, VA 22313-1451
`General Contact Number: 571-272-8500
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`Mailed: September 9, 2014
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`Opposition No. 91216231
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`Duke University
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`The District Joint Venture, LLC
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`Eric McWilliams, Supervisory Paralegal:
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`The Board notes the consented motion filed by plaintiff on August 15,
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`2014 to extend all dates, including the discovery conference deadline, for the
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`parties to pursue settlement.
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`While the Board is liberal in granting extensions of time to
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`accommodate settlement, after an answer has been filed, the Board is
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`unlikely to find good cause for a motion, even upon consent or stipulation, to
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`extend the deadline for the parties to conduct the required discovery
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`conference when the basis for the motion is the existence of settlement
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`discussions. See TBMP § 509.01(a); Boston Red Sox Baseball Club LP v.
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`Chaveriat, 87 USPQ2d 1767, 1767 n.1 (TTAB 2008) (“It is unlikely the Board
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`will find good cause for a motion to extend or suspend for settlement if the
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`motion is filed after answer but prior to the discovery conference, precisely
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`because the discovery conference itself provides an opportunity to discuss
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`settlement.”).
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`Inasmuch as the motion to suspend/extend was filed after the answer,
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`but prior to the parties’ discovery conference deadline, the Board does not
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`find good cause to suspend/extend. Accordingly, said motion is denied. The
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`parties are expected to proceed to conduct the required discovery conference
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`without delay.
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`Disclosure, discovery and trial dates remain as previously set in
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`defendant’s motion filed in June 16, 2014.
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