Federal Register: July 16, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 135)
DOCID: fr16jy09-28 FR Doc E9-16878
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
Docket ID: [Docket No. PTO-T-2009-0024]
NOTICE: NOTICES
DOCID: fr16jy09-28
DOCUMENT ACTION: Notice.
SUBJECT CATEGORY:
Notice of Reformatted Trademark Registration Certificate
DATES: The reformatted registration certificates will begin issuing in September 2009.
DOCUMENT SUMMARY:
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (``Office'') is reformatting the certificates of registration issued for registered marks.
SUMMARY:
Reformatted Trademark Registration Certificate
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
To streamline the issuance of registration
certificates, pursuant to 15 U.S.C. 1057(a), 1093 and 37 CFR 2.151, and
for purposes of cost containment, modernization and efficiency, the
Office will be reformatting the certificates of registration for marks
registered both on the principal register and the supplemental
register. Specifically, (1) the certificates will be printed on
standardsize 8\1/2\ by 11inch paper, rather than the customsize
paper on which they are currently printed; (2) the folder that is part
of the current certificate will be eliminated; (3) the signature of the
Director and the seal of the Office, which currently appear on the
folder, will appear on the first page of the reformatted certificate;
and (4) registration maintenance information, which currently appears
on the folder, will appear on the final page of the reformatted
certificate. The Office intends to begin issuing the reformatted
certificates in September 2009. In advance of the change, the Office
will post on its Web site an example of the reformatted certificate in August 2009.
Dated: July 10, 2009.
John J. Doll,
Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
Cynthia C. Lynch, Office of the Deputy Commissioner for Trademark Examination Policy, by telephone at (571) 2728742.