USPTO and Copyright Office Waive Certain Deadlines Due to COVID-19 Outbreak
April 7, 2020
Intellectual Property
As discussed in an earlier post, the CARES Act authorizes the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) and the Register of Copyrights to “toll, waive, adjust, or modify” certain timing deadlines and provisions under trademark and copyright law in response to the coronavirus outbreak. The USPTO…
Update: CARES Act Grants Authority for Adjustment of IP Deadlines
March 30, 2020
Intellectual Property
An update to this post was published April 7. The newly-passed CARES Act now authorizes the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) and the Register of Copyrights to “toll, waive, adjust, or modify” certain timing deadlines and provisions under trademark, patent, and copyright law in response…
Despite Coronavirus, USPTO Cannot Extend Certain Trademark Deadlines—But Will Waive Fees to Revive or Reinstate
March 25, 2020
Intellectual Property
An update to this post was published April 7. Even though the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) acknowledged in a recent notice that the Coronavirus outbreak is an “extraordinary situation,” it explained that is nonetheless unable to grant waivers of extensions of certain trademark deadlines. These include the…
Not All Trademarks Are Created Equal: What You Need to Know Before You Meet with Your Marketing Team
January 6, 2020
Intellectual Property
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” – George Orwell, Animal Farm As far as intellectual property attorneys are concerned, when George Orwell wrote the infamous quote above, he may as well have been talking about trademarks. As with the animals in Animal Farm, not…