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Filing Basis

Definition:
The legal basis for filing an application for registration of a mark. The Trademark Act sets out five filing bases, and an applicant must specify and meet the requirements of one or more bases before the mark will be approved for publication for opposition or registration on the Supplemental Register.

Change Of Name

Definition:
Owners of trademark applications and registrations change their names, even though the actual ownership of the application or registration has not been transferred.

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Trademark Glossary Terms - helpful related terms

Best Mode

Definition:
A condition for the grant of a patent. An inventor must describe the best method he or she knows for carrying out the invention.

Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Definition:
A major piece of U.S. legislation adopted in 1998 that extensively amended the copyright laws, in part to conform U.S. law to various treaty obligations, and in part to modernize the law to take into account various new digital technologies.

Change of Name

Definition:
Sometimes, owners of trademark applications and registrations change their names, even though the actual ownership of the application or registration has not been transferred.

Classification of Goods & Services

Definition:
Are classified by an international system, according to international treaties to which the United States is a signatory. All goods and services included in trademark applications are classified by the Office according to this system.

Office Action

Definition:
A letter from a trademark examining attorney setting forth the legal status of a trademark application.

Canceled

Definition:
Trademark registration is no longer viable. It may be due to the registrant's failure to file the required continued use affidavit under Section 8 of the Trademark Act,