Guide to Registering Trademarks »

You can minimize your research time and prepare trademark forms with confidence when you use the Guide to Registering Trademarks as your on-the-spot guide. This carefully constructed loose-leaf offers more than 200 practice-tested ready-to-use forms

Here's just a sampling of the proven forms, documents, and letters that will save you countless research and drafting hours:

• The Attorney-Client Relationship (Request for information; Conflict of interest letters)
• Trademark Clearance (Letter advising against use of mark as non-registrable subject matter; Client letters, after a preliminary or full search)
• The Trademark Application (Application for registration; Power of attorney; Appointment of a domestic representative; Drawing page; Transmittal letters)
• Filing and Communicating with the PTO (Heading for correspondence with the PTO; Cover letters; Certificate of mailing or transmission)
• Post-Filing Activities (Request for restoration of filing date; Application status inquiries; Letter of protest)
• The Examination Process (Letters to applicant forwarding a notice of abandonment; Request for reinstatement; Declaration accompanying request for reinstatement where the missing document was filed by the applicant; Amendments to allege use and statements of use)
• The Examining Attorney's Requirements (Letters to client regarding each step of the examination process; Response to office actions, including priority and final office actions, Standard declaration)
• Refusals by the Examining Attorney (Declaration in support of claim of acquired distinctiveness)
• Post-Publication Actions and Amendments (Amendment after publication; Letters to client regarding allowance or rejection of amendment after publication)
• Petitions and Appeals (Standard form of petition; Petition from premature; final rejection; Petition to revive abandoned applicationwhere failure to file was unavoidable; Request for oral hearing; Notice of appeal)
• Inter Partes Proceedings (First and second requests for extension of time to file an opposition for less than 120 days; Notice of opposition; Answer to notice of opposition; Letter to client forwarding notice of concurrent use proceedings to which it has been made a party)
• Registration and Post-Registration (Request for correction of registration certificate; Section 8 use and nonuse affidavits; Reminder letter to client regarding renewal requirement; Surrender of registration)
• Assignment of Ownership of the Mark (Form assignment; Request that registration issue in assignees name)