Month: February 2019

Defining the Scope of your Goods/Services – Class Headings

Unlike many other trademark offices, the US trademark office does not permit the use of class headings to identify the goods or services in a registration. A common filing strategy for applicants (particularly foreign applicants and other applicants that rely on foreign registrations as the basis for registration in the US) is to include the class headings in an initial application, with the intention of later narrowing the scope of the goods or services at a later time. In a...

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