Background Information

Electronic Application Forms: Scenario 1

Request to Record a Security Interest or Other Restriction - § 7.24

Affidavits of Use -- § 7. 36

• Extensions of Protection will require affidavits of use under section 71 of the Act
• These affidavits need to be filed between the 5^th and the 6^th year, 9^th and 10^th year, 19^th and 20^th year, etc.
• These time periods run from the registration date of the extension of protection—not from the international registration date
• The time periods reflected in § 71 and the rules reflect the pre-TLT post registration timelines.
• There will be no need to file any of these affidavits until 2009.
• USPTO hopes to harmonize the post registration requirements by then.