New Year, New USPTO: Petitions for Challenging Unused Marks Under TMA Accepted Starting December 27, 2021

On Wednesday, November 17, 2021, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published its final rule for new procedures allowing third parties to challenge unused trademark registrations. The rule enacts changes in trademark law embodied in the Trademark Modernization Act (TMA) that went into force in December 2020. Read more