US Patent & Trademark Office issued Examination Guide 1-22, Clarification of Examination Evidentiary Standard for Marks Refused as Generic, which amends PTO stance on appropriate evidentiary burden for examining attorneys refusing registration based on genericness.
The US Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) recently issued Examination Guide 1-22, Clarification of Examination Evidentiary Standard for Marks Refused as Generic (Guide 1-22), which amends.
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Showings of acquired distinctiveness, filing correctly, and avoiding claims of functionality are all key to successful color mark applications in the United States, according to research by the Non-Traditional Marks Committee U.S. Color Marks Task Force during the 2020‒2021 Committee Term.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office released a final rule on June 16, 2020, to revise how it calculates patent term adjustment. But the USPTO’s PTA algorithm does not yet fully account.