PTO Examiner Removes ‘Potential Bar’ to Registering CTA's ‘NEXTGEN TV’ Trademark
Sharp Japan’s “prior pending applications” to trademark “NXT-GEN” as a name and logo for consumer TVs and monitors were "abandoned and no longer pose as a potential bar” to CTA’s attempt to register the “NEXTGEN TV” logo for ATSC 3.0…
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consumer goods, said an “examiner’s amendment” posted Tuesday at the Patent and Trademark Office. Sharp’s December 2018 applications got provisional PTO approval, but PTO declared them dead after Sharp let lapse the Jan. 4 deadline for filing the required statements of use that would have cleared the trademarks to final registration (see 2001080031). Sharp and CTA haven’t commented on whether they coordinated PTO activities to let the NEXTGEN TV logo application go forward.