Earlier this month, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a notice of proposed rule-making to implement provisions of the Trademark Modernization Act (TMA), which.
Counsel disagree on whether new Trademark Modernization Act rules will deter bad actors
Counsel are divided over whether the USPTO’s proposed
guidelines on the Trademark Modernization Act could deter bad actors from
abusing it, Managing IP reported yesterday, May 27.
The act, which was passed in December 2020 and will go into
effect in December 2021, was enacted to help clear the registry of marks not
being used in commerce.
The pending guidelines, ‘Changes To Implement Provisions of
the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020’, were published on May 18. They set
out how the USPTO would oversee the act’s new ex-parte expungement and ex-parte
Earlier this month, the USPTO set forth the rules and procedures implementing two changes to the Trademark Modernization Act: the new proceedings to cancel registrations in whole or in part, and the changes to the time to respond to office actions.
On 18 May 2021, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published a notice of proposed rulemaking concerning the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (TMA). The USPTO proposed to.