Record Assignments, Not Licenses, at the US Patent Office.
The assignment document, together with the required recordation form cover sheet, may be filed electronically or in paper form with the USPTO and no legalisation is required for this filing. Use of a licensed mark by a licensee inures to the benefit of the trademark owner, provided that the trademark owner supervises the nature and quality of the goods or services bearing the trademark.
Electronic Trademark Assignment Search (ETAS) Patent Maintenance Fee Storefront; Patent Trial and Appeal Board End to End (PTAB-E2E) For Patent Customers: During the maintenance period, if you need to file a new patent application, you can use EFS-Web for Unregistered eFilers or EFS-Web Contingency. If you need to file a follow-on submission or.
Filing the Assignment with the USPTO The owner of the trademark is required to record the transaction with the USPTO anytime the owner assigns a federally registered trademark. Luckily, the USPTO has a simple online form that you can use to record the assignment.
A trademark assignment is the transfer of trademark rights from one or more owners of a mark to someone else. These assignments should be in writing--typically accomplished through a contract--to protect all parties and make clear everyone's rights going forward.
Please note that the filing of an ADS with a new application sets forth the identification of the applicant. Where an application is filed without indentifying an assignee(s) as the applicant, the USPTO identifies the inventor(s) as the applicant.
TIP: Patent claims can inform the inventorship (and the ownership) of a provisional application. This is another good reason to include patent claims in a provisional application. TIP: Obtain and record assignments from the inventors as soon as possible. This ensures that the assignee can file continuing and PCT applications, grant licenses, etc.
Note: Depending on how the assignment is setup students may see both a file submission page and an online text editor. Access controlled links. If the administrator has enabled this feature for either the Google Drive repository or the OneDrive repository then students can upload a file as an 'access controlled link' from either of these repositories. The file is then copied to the site.