The Board has yet to decide whether "reckless disregard for the truth" is enough to support a fraud ruling. There are some suggestions (including a recent article by TTAB Judge Lorelei Ritchie [
TTABlogged here]) that "willful blindness" may be enough. With that in mind, I have created Version 2.0 of the Fraud-O-Meter, still in beta testing.
Copyright John L. Welch 2010, 2012.
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