The US Patent and Trademark Office is accelerating its transition to electronic trademark registration certificates, as the agency halts issuing paper certificates through May 23.
The office will begin issuing digital certificates on May 24, two weeks earlier than previously announced, the agency said in a May 16 update. It hasn’t issued paper certificates since May 10 because of a paper vendor disruption, according to a statement.
An upcoming Federal Register notice will provide further detail, the agency said.
Some attorneys called the registration certificate pause “unprecedented.”
Trademark attorney Erik Pelton of Erik Pelton & Associates said in the ...
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