T.M.E.P. § 304.02
Communications Not Acceptable Via Electronic Mail

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304.02 Communications Not Acceptable Via Electronic Mail

Internet e-mail may not be used to file applications for registration of marks, responses to examining attorneys' Office actions, amendments to allege use under 15 U.S.C. 1051(c), statements of use under 15 U.S.C. 1051(d), requests for extensions of time to file statements of use under 15 U.S.C. 1051(d)(2), affidavits of continued use or excusable nonuse under 15 U.S.C. 1058, affidavits of incontestability under 15 U.S.C. 1065; combined affidavits under 15 U.S.C. §§1058 and 1065, or combined filings under 15 U.S.C. §§1058 and 1059. These documents may be filed electronically using TEAS (see TMEP §301).

Effective September 20, 2004, applicants wishing to transmit responses to examining attorneys' Office actions electronically must use TEAS, available at http://www.uspto.gov/teas/index.html. Responses to Office actions that are transmitted by any other electronic means (e.g., responses sent directly to an examining attorney's e-mail address) will not be accepted. See Trademark Operation Will No Longer Accept Responses to Office Actions that are Transmitted by E-Mail (TMOG Apr. 6, 2004), posted at http://www.uspto.gov/web/trademarks/notice_emailresponses.htm.

The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board does not accept e-mail communications.