Published on: 12/13/2024 9:07 AM
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Successfully clearing the trademark register using TMA proceedings
 We’ve hit a huge milestone—the Trademark Modernization Act’s (TMA) expungement and reexamination proceedings have cleared over 25,000 goods and services from the trademark register. We couldn’t have done it without you. Your petitions helped us identify and clear unused goods and services that blocked other innovators from registering their trademarks.
To obtain and maintain a registration, business owners must use their trademark in commerce for all the goods and services in the registration. When registered trademarks aren’t used but remain on the register anyway, they clutter the trademark register, making it difficult for legitimate businesses to obtain their own registrations for the same or similar marks.
If you’d like to request an expungement or reexamination proceeding, submit a petition and filing fee.
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