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Accelerated Examination (AE) by USPTO is quite useful to speed up the examination process

Accelerated examination is inexpensive and useful tool to get patent application quickly through US patent office

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New trademark era: generic.com is trademarkable in U.S.

Late Justice Ruth Ginsburg delivered the Supreme court opinion, that a generic term paired with .com “is a generic name for a class of goods or services only if the term has that meaning to consumers.” You can read the following oral argument and hear Late Justice Ruth Ginsburg’s voice. Speaker 1: (02:15) Honorable, the […]

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When it comes to remedies for trademark infringement, the Lanham Act authorizes many–turning over profits, infringers

The Lanham Act provision governing remedies for trademark violations, §1117(a), makes a showing of willfulness a precondition to a profits award in a suit under §1125(c) for trademark dilution, but §1125(a) has never required such a showing. Reading words into a statute should be avoided, especially when they are included elsewhere in the very same statute. That absence seems all the more telling here, where the Act speaks often, expressly, and with considerable care about mental states.

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USPTO’s updated rules for mandatory electronic filing take effect on 2/15/2020 after being delayed multiple times.

It will apply to everyone conducting business with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) regarding a trademark matter. Attorney representation is required for foreign applicants.

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How USPTO reacts with COVID-19

Extensions apply only to due dates between March 27 and April 30 The extension is for 30 days from the original due date Requests for an extension under this provision must include a statement that a practitioner, applicant, patent owner or “other person associated with the filing or fee” in question was “personally affected” by […]

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