Kilpatrick Townsend’s Ted Davis recently spoke at the Federal Bar Association’s IP Law Fall Conference 2022 on the topic of “Petitions for Expungement or Reexamination and Other Aspects of the Trademark Modernization Act.” United States trademark professionals and mark owners now had more than six months of experience in the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) administration of the Trademark Modernization Act (TMA), which Congress enacted in part to address the problem of “deadwood” cluttering the USPTO’s trademark registers. During roughly the same period, the USPTO has undertaken various other initiatives bearing on bad-faith trademark- related filings.