Trademark attorneys will begin the new year test-driving new procedural tools for clearing suspect trademark registrations out of their clients’ path in 2022.
Another top trademark issue in the year ahead will be online platforms facing pressures to purge counterfeits.
The trademark expungement and reexamination procedures designed to implement last year’s Trademark Modernization Act became operational Dec. 18.
The procedures allow anyone to challenge registrations for trademarks in a streamlined proceeding by saying the marks claimed by the applicant were never used, or weren’t used when first claimed.
Congress tasked the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with crafting the details ...
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