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The order sanctions respondents and terminates trademark application proceedings in which respondents improperly entered applicant and attorney signatures and provided false signatory and attorney information.
Discontinuing Accelerated Examination for utility applications frees up examining resources to be devoted to older, unexamined utility applications, thereby supporting our broader efforts to reduce pendency.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) plans to launch the Southeast Regional Outreach Office at its headquarters in Virgina and will immediately begin serving the southeast region.
Innovation often builds upon existing ideas, taking small steps and great leaps to solve problems and improve our everyday lives. The patent system promotes this innovation through sharing past inventions, so that others can build upon them and benefit our society.