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Kira-Khanh McCarthy Reports on October 30th TPAC Meeting

[This guest post was written by Kira-Khanh McCarthy, a law clerk in the Trademark Group at Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.]. The USPTO held an online public meeting of the Trademark Public Advisory Committee (TPAC) on October 30, 2020. The agenda and list of speakers may be found here. During the TTAB portion of the presentation, Chief Judge Gerard F. Rogers provided the following information: With regard to the vacancy announcement for the hiring of TTAB judges, the submission period is now closed.  The Board is in the process of reviewing applications to create a list of the best qualified candidates.  The list will be maintained and used to fill available positions moving forward. The TTAB issued 43 precedential decisions in FY2020 amounting to a 13% increase from FY2019...continue to full post

Full post as published by The TTABlog on November 03, 2020 (boomark / email).