Case: Trademarks/Procedure (T.T.A.B.)

The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board suspended Cloudworks Consulting Services Inc.'s petition to cancel Ongoing Operations LLC’s trademark and gave it 30 days to appoint U.S. counsel. Cloudworks is domiciled in Canada and solely represented by Canadian counsel. The board explained that in August 2019, the PTO amended its rules to require applicants, registrants, or parties to a proceeding before the board whose domicile is not located within the U.S. or its territories to be represented by an attorney who is an active member in good standing of the bar of the highest court of a state in the U.S., ...