BoH did indeed submit a letter to the USPTO TTAB. You can read it here:

http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?p...&pty=CAN&eno=2

It means she gives up rights to the trademark on "Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness" so that means it's free again for everyone!

BUT she reserves the rights to it in case anyone else tries to trademark it (who else would do that???!!) and she claims all rights to any trademarks including that phrase, such as "Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness DAY" (which she already owns).

And also to any future ones such as "Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness T-Shirt" or "Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness Walk" or "Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness Fundraiser" or anything like that. She hasn't trademarked those but reserves her right to fight for ownership if anyone else does.

So as long as no one else tries to trademark those phrases, we should be ok.

CHERUBS will however NOT participate in CDH Awareness Day because it's trademarked and we don't want to deal with drama. Nor do we use turquoise because we don't support these drama either.

But anyone can now say "Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness" without fear of her suing, threatening to sue or harras anyone. Which is all we wanted anyway - for CDH Awareness to be free for anyone to use.... because it does belong to ALL families, researchers and especially these babies.