This Handbook provides an overview of federal patent and trademark law. Information discussed includes types of patents and trademarks, duration of registration, requirements for obtaining, a guide to the application process, protecting your patent or trademark, and much more in 18 pages of materials.
You can claim a priority filing date if you file your international application within six months of filing your basic trademark application. A priority claim is filed when a trademark owner wants to use its first filing date from an application filed in another country within the past six months.Priority in trademark law refers to the right to claim an earlier filing date based on an existing application or registration. An applicant who claims the priority of one or more earlier national, regional or international applications for the same invention must indicate on the Request Constructive use priority is based on Section 7(c) of the Trademark Act. It is applicable once a trademark application is filed on the principal register. An application for patent filed in the United States may be entitled to the benefit of the filing date of a prior application filed in a foreign country. The priority date determines whether another patent filing or publicly available document qualifies as prior art against one's patent application. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) encourages online filing via TEAS (Trademark Electronic Application System) on its website. Here's my method and the EASIEST Way To Trademark a Name or Logo.