商標登録insideNews: Announcing a new filing functionality for Trademark Trial and Appeal Board customers | USPTO

TTAB launches a beta site for opposition filing

As part of our efforts to modernize our systems and improve customer experience, we’ve launched the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) Center open beta for filing notices of opposition. An opposition is a TTAB proceeding in which a party may challenge the registration of a trademark.  

情報源: Announcing a new filing functionality for Trademark Trial and Appeal Board customers | USPTO

TTAB launches a beta site for opposition filing
TTAB Center Beta

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商標登録insideNews: USPTO Implementing New Trademark Application Filing System And Increasing Fees | mondaq.com

USPTO Fee Increase Nov. 2024

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently published notice that it intends to move forward with plans to increase trademark filing fees effective November 2024.

情報源: United States – Trademark – USPTO Implementing New Trademark Application Filing System And Increasing Fees

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

基本出願の出願手数料は 250 ドルから 350 ドルに増加します。不完全な申請の場合は追加 100 ドルです。USPTO の商標 ID マニュアルから事前に承認された指定商品・指定役務の記載を選択するのではなく、商品または役務の独自の説明を使用する場合は、1 クラスあたり 200 ドルの追加になります。また過度に長い指定商品・指定役務の記載(ID)の場合はクラス毎に 200 ドル (スペースと句読点を含む、最初の 1,000 文字を超える 1,000 文字の追加グループ毎) が加算されます(Character base limit)。

⚠文字は語(word)ではなく、charactersの数です。例えばtrademarkは1語ですが、characterの数は9(スペースも入れると10)です。適用となるベースは、1a, 1b 44, 66aですので、マドプロ経由の出願も1000 character ruleが適用されます。日本の類記載をそのまま翻訳して長いIDとなった場合は超過料金が凄いことになる可能性があります。11月の施行日よりも後の米国出願、米国指定の国際出願は指定商品・指定役務の記載の長さも気にする必要がありそうです。

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商標登録insideNews: USPTO Provides Guidance on Using AI-Based Tools in Filing and Preparing Patent and Trademark Applications | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

USPTO Provides Guidance on Using AI-Based Tools

New guidance from the USPTO discusses the risks of using AI tools in preparing patent and trademark applications, and how practitioners’ existing duties and obligations apply when using AI technology in applications.

情報源: USPTO Provides Guidance on Using AI-Based Tools in Filing and Preparing Patent and Trademark Applications | Insights | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

USPTO Provides Guidance on Using AI-Based Tools

Guidance on Use of Artificial Intelligence-Based Tools in Practice Before the United States Patent and Trademark Office ::Federal Register

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米国商標実務 TMEP 商品・役務の記載 vol.5

新しい技術分野の登録可能な商品役務 ID Manualからの抽出 それぞれ新しい技術分野の商品役務として米国特許商標庁のID manualに挙げられている記載を抽出しています。A/Dの欄は、ID manualの入力状態( …

商標登録insideNews: Arlington’s USA Rice wins trademark case over RightRice | Washington Business Journal

RightRice TM was cancelled by USPTO

RightRice, which is found on D.C.-based Cava’s fast-casual restaurant menu and sold in supermarkets nationwide, is currently branded as RightRice®, with a rice-shaped mark over the second “i” instead of a dot. The Nov. 29 decision of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board to cancel the trademark means the symbol will have to come off, the federation states, though “rice” can remain — rice is a grain, not a trademark.

情報源: Arlington’s USA Rice wins trademark case over RightRice – Washington Business Journal

The USA Rice Federation’s challenge leads to the cancellation of RightRice®’s trademark, sparking debates on food naming and marketing.

情報源: Trademark Win for USA Rice Federation: RightRice® Mark Cancelled i…

Mark: RIGHTRICE
Application Filing Date: Sep. 06, 2017
US Serial Number: 87598342
US Registration Number: 5597052

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