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PTO Publishes Summary of Rule Changes Effective January 16, 2009

On November 17, 2008, the PTO published a final rule entitled "Miscellaneous Changes to Trademark Rules of Practice," 73 F.R. 67759. (pdf a href="http://home.comcast.net/%7Ejlw28129/73fr67759.pdf"here/a). These changes become beffective on January 16, 2009/b. According to the PTO, "[t]he changes clarify certain requirements for applications, intent to use documents, amendments to classification, requests to divide, and Post Registration practice; modernize the language of the rules; and make other miscellaneous changes." For the most part, "the rule changes merely codify and clarify existing practice, as set forth in the Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure(TMEP)." The PTO has now published a "Summary of Miscellaneous Changes to Trademark Rules" (pdf a href="http://www...continue to full post

Full post as published by The TTABlog on December 22, 2008 (boomark / email).