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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 +
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Trademark Red Tape: Disparaging Marks And TTAB Tidbits

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Welcome to Trademark Red Tape, our periodic round-up of trademark news and happenings at the United States Patent & Trademark Office. Here are the highlights: - A Time-Out for Offensive Trademarks. According to IP...more

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How May We Help You? When is a Service Not a Service?

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Brand owners seeking federal protection for their service marks from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO") often struggle with how to define their services in the application. While the Trademark Act defines...more

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Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes: USPTO Pilot Program on Changing Technology

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As you may have heard, the USPTO has commenced a pilot program to allow, under limited circumstances, amendments to identifications of goods/services in trademark registrations to account for evolving technology. Amendments...more

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A Solution for Evolution in the Trademark Arena

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The USPTO’s Welcome Initiative for Technology-Driven Changes in Registered Trademark Use. Under a pilot program announced by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on September 1, 2015, trademark owners...more

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From Phonograph Records to Musical Sound Recordings: USPTO’s Pilot Program May Bring Life to Outdated Registrations

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Own a trademark registration covering goods or services that have become obsolete due to technological advances? Does your trademark registration cover content delivered by floppy discs that are now provided as on-line...more

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Why it Pays to Make Nice with Marketing

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You may have read here before about the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) increased focus on removing "deadwood" – registrations that remain in force, but cover marks that are not actually in use for all of the...more

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Chipping Away at the Dead Wood and Other Registered-But-Unused Marks

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An ongoing issue faced by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has been the number of trademark registrations granted or retained for over-inclusive identifications of goods and/or services where the...more

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