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20 Jan 2021, 8:44 am by Kirk M. Hartung
United States Patent and Trademark Office Director Andrei Iancu resigned as director of the agency, receiving high praise from the Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Thom Tillis (North Carolina). [read post]
18 May 2019, 9:15 am by Jennifer Ko Craft
While all eyes are on China and how it plans to tackle bad faith infringers, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) also is cleaning house, implementing stricter rules for acquiring and maintaining trademark registrations. [read post]
5 Apr 2012, 10:43 am by Jeff Shieh
Just in case you missed this bit of news: On March 7, 2012, the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) and the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI) announced the extension of the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot program … Continue reading ? [read post]
24 Oct 2012, 11:21 pm by Evan Anderson
  Those with even a basic understanding of U.S. trademark law should immediately be wary of these reports, as they plainly overshadow the purpose of trademark law and the limitations on what protection is offered to the owners of United States trademark rights.First, after a cursory review of the seven TEBOWING trademark applications on the USPTO, it is apparent that Tim Tebow is the owner of the TEBOWING wording as used in connection with… [read post]
28 Jul 2021, 4:15 am by Natasha Shabani
Last month, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) posted a blog entry on its website addressing a development that trademark practitioners have been aware of for months: trademark applications have surged to unprecedented... [read post]
30 Jun 2017, 11:00 am by Nikki Siesel
Supreme Court and one pending before the Federal Circuit have kept the United States Patent & Trademark Office (“USPTO”) busy writing Examination Guidance for Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act’s Disparagement Provision and Scandalous Provision. [read post]
13 Aug 2014, 5:00 am by Gene Quinn
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is seeking public input to determine the optimal first action and total pendency target levels for patents… The Patent Office believes that by reviewing the optimal pendency levels the Office will be in a better position to plan for patent examination staffing levels and other agency resource requirements. [read post]
3 Oct 2016, 2:15 am by U.S.P.T.O.
Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) proposing to set or adjust certain patent fees, as authorized by the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA). [read post]
12 Jul 2015, 7:30 am by Robert P. Greenspoon
In a filing by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on June 26, 2015, in my clients’ case asserting the unconstitutionality of inter partes review, the Patent Office writes: “Because Congress may authorize the PTO to issue patents in the first instance, Congress may equally authorize the PTO to reconsider its patentability decisions... [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 4:15 am by Jude Tonner
It is with great interest that we at Sentry IP read the report the United States Patent and Trademark Office made to Congress earlier this year on “International Patent Protections For Small Businesses”. [read post]
8 Oct 2021, 10:57 am by Dennis Crouch
Whether a term that is generic in the English-speaking foreign country from which it originated is ineligible for trademark protection in the United States. 2. [read post]
16 Dec 2020, 12:15 pm by Gene Quinn
Hannon in a recent law review article seen by Senators Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Chris Coons (D-DE), who promptly sent a letter to United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Andrei Iancu demanding answers. [read post]
14 Jun 2022, 4:15 am by Barry Herman
While still safeguarding your invention as a trade secret, you file a patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and get the product ready for launch. [read post]
4 Mar 2012, 11:43 pm by Steve Baird
The question for the day is not, why did the chicken cross the road, but rather, why did the chicken file an ex parte Letter of Protest with the Office of the Deputy Commissioner for Trademark Examination Policy at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), just a few months ago? [read post]
19 Jun 2018, 11:39 am by Jake Ward
Via press release from US Inventor today: INVENTORS REQUEST CORRECTION TO COVER OF 10 MILLIONTH PATENT (WASHINGTON, DC) – Today the United States Patent and Trademark Office announced issuance of the 10 millionth patent. [read post]
20 Aug 2007, 1:55 pm
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will publish (tomorrow) in the Federal Register new rules that will allow the agency to continue to make the patent examination process more effective and efficient by encouraging applicants to use greater precision in describing the scope of their inventions. [read post]
28 Jan 2012, 4:11 pm
Sources: United States Patent and Trademark Office United States Patent and Trademark Office-Trademarks Home California Secretary of State-Trademarks and Service Marks Model State Trademark Law/CA. [read post]
4 Oct 2017, 8:30 am by Gene Quinn
Judge O'Malley explained that the majority of the Federal Circuit found the statute on this point to be ambiguous and, therefore, no deference was given to any interpretation of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) under Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. v. [read post]