Mon.Dec 28, 2020

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USPTO Trademark Application features many puzzle pieces to assemble

Erik K Pelton

The following is an excerpt from my video, The Many Pieces of a USPTO Trademark Application. Have you ever looked at the USPTO Trademark Application Form online? It’s called the TEAS Form, – TEAS Standard or TEAS Plus. TEAS is the electronic filing system at the USPTO. There are many steps to the form. On the one hand, one could try to argue—they wouldn’t convince me—that it’s an easy form to apply for a trademark registration, because it’s just putting in a bunch

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Top Trademark Trends of 2020

Erik K Pelton

By Erik Pelton®. This year – despite the cliché – has been unprecedented in many ways; it featured the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdowns, quarantines, masks, and social distancing, as well as protests in the street, a presidential election, economic volatility, and much more. And trademarks have been along for the ride. While there were not, in my opinion, any major court developments affecting trademark owners, there have been many other events and changes that have impacted the world of trademarks

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