Jennifer Ko Craft was quoted in the Law360 article, "USPTO Cuts Time To Respond To TM Office Actions In Half."

Jennifer Ko Craft was quoted in the Law360 article, "USPTO Cuts Time To Respond To TM Office Actions In Half." As part of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s ongoing efforts to streamline the trademark application process, starting this December, trademark applicants will have three months, instead of six, to respond to official letters. Jennifer points to strategic reasons a client may desire to wait to file a response, such as to see if a cited registration will be renewed, but now they must pay to do so. "For me, the real benefit to the rule change is that now when I have a prior pending application cited, or we are otherwise monitoring a third-party application, our wait to determine its final disposition is shortened, which is good," Jennifer shares. To read the article, click here.