`Trademark Trial and Appeal Board
`P.O. Box 1451
`Alexandria, VA 22313-1451
`General Contact Number: 571-272-8500
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`Mailed: April 13, 2017
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`Opposition No. 91225781
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`Abbott Laboratories
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`Sodilac
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`Nicole Thier, Paralegal Specialist:
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`Applicant’s consented motion, filed April 12, 2017, to extend disclosure, discovery,
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`and trial dates is granted for good cause shown.1 However, the parties are reminded
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`of their continued obligation to provide a detailed progress report with all future ex-
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`tension and suspension requests filed with the Board. Trademark Rule 2.127(a).
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`Trial dates are reset in accordance with Applicant’s consented motion.
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`Generally, the Federal Rules of Evidence apply to Board trials. Trial testimony is
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`taken and introduced out of the presence of the Board during the assigned testimony
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`periods. The parties may stipulate to a wide variety of matters, and many require-
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`ments relevant to the trial phase of Board proceedings are set forth in Trademark
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`1 When parties stipulate to the rescheduling of a deadline for pretrial disclosures and subse-
`quent testimony periods or to the rescheduling of the closing date for discovery and the re-
`scheduling of subsequent deadlines for pretrial disclosures and testimony periods, a stipula-
`tion presented in the form used in a trial order, signed by the parties, or a motion in said
`form signed by one party and including a statement that every other party has agreed
`thereto, shall be submitted to the Board through ESTTA, with the relevant dates set forth
`and an express statement that all parties agree to the new dates. Trademark Rule 2.121(d).
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`Rules 2.121 through 2.125. These include pretrial disclosures, matters in evidence,
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`the manner and timing of taking testimony, and the procedures for submitting and
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`serving testimony and other evidence, including affidavits, declarations, deposition
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`transcripts and stipulated evidence. Trial briefs shall be submitted in accordance
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`with Trademark Rules 2.128(a) and (b). Oral argument at final hearing will be sched-
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`uled only upon the timely submission of a separate notice as allowed by Trademark
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`Rule 2.129(a).
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