From March to May of 2020, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) responded to the COVID-19 outbreak by offering various forms of relief to stakeholders. The widest ranging of these ...
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently announced the Streamlined Claim Set Pilot Program, designed to speed up examination. If accepted, an application can be advanced out of ...
“The agency’s decision to mandate use of Form PTO/SB/133 for PTA statements follows a sampling of PTA statements submitted independent of the official form, which revealed a portion of statements that ...
The USPTO wants to make it mandatory to file trade mark applications electronically. Colleen Connors Butler of Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione reveals the advantages and disadvantages of doing so Since ...
Earlier this week the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued an Advisory to the patent bar, reminding everyone about regulations of the European Patent Office that requires search results to ...