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PTAB/USPTO Update - August 2025

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On July 31, 2025, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Coke Morgan Stewart issued a memorandum indicating that the USPTO “will enforce and no longer waive the requirement of...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Expedited TM Review For Covid-19 Products/Services

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Last month, the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) began an initiative to expedite the review of, and waive the fees related to, trademark applications for marks used to identify qualifying Covid-19 products...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

COVID-19 Extensions Set to Expire July 1, 2020 for Patents; Trademark Extensions Ended May 31

On May 27, 2020, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a further extension of certain deadlines that were about to expire on May 31. The latest order provides until July 1, 2020 for certain actions delayed due to...more

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USPTO Waives Certain Patent Document and Fee Deadlines

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The director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced on March 31, 2020, a 30-day extension of statutory deadlines for filing certain patent-related documents and paying associated fees so long as...more

Akerman LLP

Patent and Trademark Office Provides Limited Extensions For Applicants Affected By COVID-19

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Yesterday, March 31, 2020, the USPTO issued a Notice of Waiver of Patent-Related Timing Deadlines under the CARES Act. The Waiver concerns a limited set of deadlines for patent-related documents or fees that are otherwise due...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

In re Steed (Fed. Cir. 2015) - Swearing Behind Reference Still Requires Proof of (Timely Filed) Evidence

Thomas Steed, Sourav Bhattacharya, and Sandeep Seshadrijois (collectively "Steed") filed a patent application entitled "Web-Integrated On-Line Financial Database System and Method for Debt Recovery," on April 6, 2004, with...more

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