Changes in Requirements for Collective Trademarks and Service Marks, Collective Membership Marks, and Certification Marks
The United States Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO") is amending the rules related to collective trademarks, collective service marks, and collective membership marks (together "collective marks"), and certification marks to clarify application requirements, allegations of use requirements, multiple-class application requirements, and registration maintenance requirements for such marks. These rule changes codify current USPTO practice set forth in the USPTO's "Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure" ("TMEP") and precedential case law. These changes also permit the USPTO to provide the public more detailed guidance regarding registering and maintaining registrations for these types of marks and promote the efficient and consistent processing of such marks. Further, the USPTO is amending several rules beyond those related to collective marks and certification marks to create consistency with rule changes regarding such marks and to streamline the rules, by consolidating text and incorporating headings, for easier use.
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- Read the news
- Patent or trademark
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- Current entry point
- www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/06/11/2015-14267/changes-in-requirements-for-collective-trademarks-and-service-marks-collective-membership-marks-and (permanent link in the Federal Register, verified 2026-09-30)
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- Published
- 2015-06-11
- Document type
- Rule
- Source
- USPTO documents published in the Federal Register (Federal Register API)(retrieved 2026-10-06)
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- Changes in Requirements for Collective Trademarks and Service Marks, Collective Membership Marks, and Certification Marks
- Revival of Abandoned Applications, Reinstatement of Abandoned Applications and Cancelled or Expired Registrations, and Petitions to the Director
- Revival of Abandoned Applications, Reinstatement of Abandoned Applications and Cancelled or Expired Registrations, and Petitions to the Director
- Changes To Implement the Patent Law Treaty
- Miscellaneous Changes to Trademark Rules of Practice
- Changes To Permit Delayed Submission of Certain Requirements for Prioritized Examination
- Changes to Permit Delayed Submission of Certain Requirements for Prioritized Examination
- Changes To Practice for Continuing Applications, Requests for Continued Examination Practice, and Applications Containing Patentably Indistinct Claims
- Trademark Law Treaty Implementation Act Changes
- Miscellaneous Changes to Trademark Rules of Practice
- Changes to the Representation of Others Before the United States Patent and Trademark Office
- Changes in Requirements for Collective Trademarks and Service Marks, Collective Membership Marks, and Certification Marks; Correction
- Requirements To Receive a Reduced Fee for Filing an Application Through the Trademark Electronic Application System
- Changes To Implement the Prioritized Examination Track (Track I) of the Enhanced Examination Timing Control Procedures
- Trademark Law Treaty Implementation Act Changes; Correction
- Revisions To Implement the Patent Term Adjustment Provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act Technical Corrections Act