Suspension (trademarks)

Term: Suspension (trademarks)

Definition: Temporary pause on examination, allowing an issue impacting your application to be resolved. For example, waiting for a potentially-conflicting trademark in a previously-filed application to either be registered or abandoned, which affects whether a subsequent trademark application can be registered.


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Lindsey Leist