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Intended to improve efficiencies and reduce processing errors, new rules implemented by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office require electronic filing of trademark applications and all submissions associated with applications.
Intended to improve efficiencies and reduce processing errors,
new rules implemented by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
require electronic filing of trademark applications and all
submissions associated with applications. Requirements for
trademark specimens of use were also updated.
Meredith Wilkes, Ilene Tannen, and Carrie Kiedrowski discuss the
likely impact of the new requirements, talk about the problems
created by fraudulent specimens, and preview Jones Day's Women
in IP initiative's event calendar for 2020.
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