Foreign companies that want a U.S. trademark for their products will have to hire a U.S.-based attorney starting Aug. 3 to help them file the application, under a new rule from the Patent and Trademark Office.
The final rule, published in the Federal Register July 2, mirrors requirements for trademarks in several other countries, including the European Union, Brazil, and Japan. It will prohibit foreign pro se trademark applications, which the PTO said nearly tripled to about 51,000 from 2015 to 2017.
Foreign companies and individuals file more than a quarter of U.S. trademark applications. The new rule could ...
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