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A guide to USPTO trademark acronyms

Erik K Pelton

The world of trademarks is full of acronyms and when I prepared for this and wrote down a list, I really couldn’t believe how many trademark world acronyms there are in dealing with the USPTO and protecting clients’ trademarks. It’s the Trademark Electronic Search System.

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Nobel Prize Winners of CRISPR/Cas9 Lose Decade Long Patent Battle to the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

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CRISPR is an acronym for “ clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats ” and Cas9 is short for “CRISPR-associated protein 9”. Cas9 is a protein that cuts the DNA and binds a guiding RNA to the DNA to add the desired sequence. In 2014, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) granted U.S.

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