USPTO Cancels Over 50,000 Trademark Registrations in Major Fraud Crackdown

USPTO Hour: Patent Trial and Appeal Board basics and priorities

In this session of our USPTO webinar series, get an introduction to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), learn about the PTAB's priorities, and hear from PTAB leadership.

USPTO Cancels Over 50,000 Trademark Registrations in Major Fraud Crackdown

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has taken decisive action against trademark fraud by canceling over 50,000 goods and services from trademark registrations through ex parte expungement and reexamination proceedings under the Trademark Modernization Act (TMA). The enforcement effort specifically targets what are known as ‘specimen farms’ – websites engineered to generate false evidence of trademark usage. Many of these registrations l…

Fraudulent specimens at the USPTO: a timeline

One of the biggest issues impacting the US trademark register in recent years has been the emergence of widespread fake specimens of use on applications usually originating from China.