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Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP

USPTO Adopts Partial Trademark Replacement Rule to Align with Madrid Protocol

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Effective July 2, 2025, the USPTO will accept requests for both full and partial replacement of earlier national trademark registrations with international registrations. Previously, the USPTO only permitted trademark holders...more

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Bahamas Now Accepting Service Mark Filings Under New Trademark Law, But Regulations Still Pending

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As of February 1, 2025, The Bahamas enacted a new Trademarks Act that, for the first time, allows service mark registrations and adopts the Nice Classification system. While this is a major step in modernizing the country’s...more

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China: implementing regulations for new Trademark Law published - Weapons against bad faith filings upgraded, but uncertainty...

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On 11 October 2019, China's State Administration for Market Regulation ("SAMR") published the Regulations on the Registration of Trademarks, which will become effective on 1 December 2019. The Regulations are implementing...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Beware of Suspicious Trademark Solicitations

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Over the past few years, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has experienced an uptick in filings of trademark applications from entities outside the United States, especially from China, that do not appear to have a...more

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