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Douglas Masters, managing partner of Loeb & Loeb’s Chicago office, is quoted in two articles published by Law360 and MLex covering U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick’s March 18 decision to remove and replace all members of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO’s) two advisory committees—the Patent Public Advisory Committee (PPAC) and Trademark Public Advisory Committee (TPAC). Doug served as vice chair of the USPTO’s TPAC up until Lutnick’s restructuring of the advisory committees.
In the MLex article, Doug emphasized the value of TPAC, stating, “I think the TPAC, in my time, has been valuable in helping the trademark office get representative input from the trademark legal community—both companies and outside lawyers—and to be able to take into account the ways in which the challenges, changes and developments of the trademark office are being felt by the users, by trademark owners and the attorneys that represent them.”
For more information, please see Law360’s website and MLex’s website (subscription may be required).
In the MLex article, Doug emphasized the value of TPAC, stating, “I think the TPAC, in my time, has been valuable in helping the trademark office get representative input from the trademark legal community—both companies and outside lawyers—and to be able to take into account the ways in which the challenges, changes and developments of the trademark office are being felt by the users, by trademark owners and the attorneys that represent them.”
For more information, please see Law360’s website and MLex’s website (subscription may be required).
