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Does the United States Patent Office Protect Unpublished Applications When Searching the Internet and Artificial Intelligence...

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Short answer: Yes, but… Short answer: Yes, but… Many practitioners in sensitive technology areas file patent applications with non-publication requests or may abandon their applications if examination is not going well...more

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USPTO Updates Deadline to Respond to Trademark Office Actions

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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has updated the deadline to respond to Office Actions for trademark applications. As of December 3, 2022, trademark applicants now have three months (instead of the...more

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USPTO to Shorten Deadline to Respond to Trademark Office Actions to Three (3) Months Effective December 3, 2022

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U.S. trademark practitioners will no longer have a six-month window to respond to Office Actions issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) on certain pending trademark applications. As of DECEMBER...more

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Important Changes in USPTO Trademark Practices to Take Effect on Dec. 3, 2022

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As part of the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (reported in the IP Intelligence Blog on Dec. 23, 2021), beginning on Dec. 3, trademark applicants will have three months (with a possible three-month extension) to respond...more

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U.S. Trademark Applications Hit the Fast Track - At Least in Theory

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​​​​​​​The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently enacted a rule change that will impact all trademark applications filed nationally in the United States (rather than through the Madrid Protocol)....more

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The Supplemental Register

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You have probably heard of trademarks and trademark registrations, but never the Supplemental trademark register. If you have heard of the Supplemental Register, then you have likely received an Office Action from the USPTO...more

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Final Rules for Trademark Modernization Act in Effect This Weekend - New Nonuse Procedures Available and Shortened Office Action...

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Attention trademark practitioners: the finalized rules implementing the 2020 Trademark Modernization Act (“TMA”) go into effect this weekend, on December 18, 2021. Significantly, this marks the availability of three new...more

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Trademark Modernization Act of 2020: What Brand Owners Should Know

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In case you missed it, President Trump signed the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (TMA) into law on December 27, 2020. The TMA, which garnered bi-partisan support and was included in the COVID-19 Economic Relief Bill,...more

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Trademark Modernization Act of 2020: Three New Year’s Gifts for Brand Owners

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The Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (TMA) was signed into law on December 27, 2020, making several changes to the Lanham Act that have important effects on trademark owners’ brand protection programs. Consistent with the...more

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After-Final Response Does Not Stop PTA Clock

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In Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc. v. Iancu, the Federal Circuit agreed with the USPTO’s Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) calculation that charged a deduction for “applicant delay” for time after the applicant filed a first...more

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Tom Brady Gets Sacked at the USPTO

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Love him or hate him, everyone agrees that NFL Quarterback Tom Brady is terrific, except the USPTO.  Earlier this year, Mr. Brady’s company filed to register the trademark “Tom Terrific” for t-shirts and various other...more

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Foreign Trademark Applicants and Registrants Must Now Be Represented By US Counsel

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Effective August 3, 2019, all foreign-domiciled trademark applicants, registrants and parties to proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board must be represented by an attorney who is licensed to practice law in...more

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Will TTAB’s First Precedential Decision of 2018 Lead to Better Quality Examination of Statements of Use?

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In January 2015, Pitney Bowes filed an intent-to-use trademark application for the logo shown here for use with mailing services, including postal delivery, parcel delivery, and delivery of mail to post offices for posting...more

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The United States Patent Office Totally Rejected Your Claims? Don't Panic!

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In my almost 17 years of practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office ("PTO"), by far the most common telephone call I receive from inventors is a frantic inquiry about an Office Action received from the PTO...more

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New USPTO P3 Program for After Final Office Actions Is Useful Hybrid of Pre-Appeal and AFCP Programs

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The Post-Prosecution Pilot Program, dubbed “P3” by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), offers applicants a new, and arguably improved, path through the after-final landscape. P3 provides applicants the...more

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A Response to Rejections Under 35 USC §101

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Here is an argument we are using in response to rejections under 35 USC §101 that allege the claims are directed to an abstract idea and are patent ineligible. This is useful in Office action responses, and appeals. The...more

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Hi-Tech Accuses Dynamic of Trademark Infringement and False Claims of Steroid Powered Products

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On September 28, 2015, Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Hi-Tech”), a Georgia corporation, brought a trademark infringement action against Dynamic Sports Nutrition, LLC d/b/a Anabolic Research (“Dynamic”), and Brian Clapp...more

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Logic, Arguments and Patents

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Patent prosecution involves one side arguing for, and another side arguing against, the validity of claims in a patent application. This takes the form of a written discourse, in which an Examiner for the USPTO (United...more

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