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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce that serves a fundamental role in the U.S. intellectual property system by issuing patents and registering trademarks.... more +

Global Patent Prosecution - September 2019: Submission of Post-Filing Data – The Dichotomy between Enablement and Obviousness in...

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. on 9/27/2019

With the implementation of the America Invents Act and the United States moving to a first-to-file regime, there is greater time pressure to file patent applications than ever before. When patent protection in ex-US...more

New Trademark Office Audit May Result in Cancellation of Registrations

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 3/27/2017

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) announced a final rule that took effect on February 17, 2017. To assess and promote the accuracy and integrity of the trademark register, the USPTO amended rules...more

Use It or Lose It: USPTO to Conduct Post-Registration Trademark Use Audits

Jones Day on 3/25/2017

Trademark owners take note: Affidavits to renew your U.S. trademark registrations may be getting a closer look. On March 21, 2017, the United States Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO") implemented a new rule aimed at...more

How to Maintain Your Trademark Registrations

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 8/8/2016

This article explains filing deadlines and document requirements for maintaining federal trademark registrations with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”). The documentation for establishing proof of continued use...more

Trademark Red Tape: Incoming Fee Increases And Sweeping TTAB Rule Changes

Foley Hoag LLP - Making Your Mark on 6/7/2016

Disparaging Marks Still Held in Abeyance. As an update to our last Trademark Red Tape, the USPTO, which has now filed a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court in In re Tam with respect to the...more

IP Update, Vol. 16, No. 4, April 2013

McDermott Will & Emery on 4/30/2013

Obviousness-Type Double Patenting May Exist When There Is Neither Common Ownership nor Common Inventorship - Addressing an obviousness-type double patenting rejection, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit...more

Final Rules for Implementing the First-Inventor-to-File Provisions of the America Invents Act

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. on 2/20/2013

The transition to the first-inventor-to-file (FITF) system occurs on March 16, 2013. To prepare for implementing the change to the FITF system, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), on February 14, 2013,...more

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