Reminder to IP Owners of Suspicious Solicitations
As a reminder to intellectual property (IP) owners, The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently issued a warning to patent and trademark owners to be aware of misleading solicitations from private companies not associated with the USPTO. These solicitations, intended to look like official U.S. government notices, often make offers for legal services, payment of patent maintenance fees, trademark monitoring services, trademark registration renewal, and more. A second type of misleading communication IP owners typically receive are email messages advising trademark owners that a third party is seeking to register domain names using the registrant’s mark(s).
