Author Question: How can an applicant for registration on the Principal Register appeal the decision of the examiner? ... (Read 24 times)

danielfitts88 · **on:** Aug 3, 2018

How can an applicant for registration on the Principal Register appeal the decision of the examiner?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

What is the duration of a copyright for a work made for hire?

What will be an ideal response?

dajones82 · **Reply #1 on:** Aug 3, 2018

Answer to Question 1

The applicant can appeal the decision before the USPTO Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) and then to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Answer to Question 2

For works made for hire and anonymous and pseudonymous works created after 1978, the duration of copyright is 95 years from first publication or 120 years from creation, whichever is shorter (unless the author's identity is later revealed in Copyright Office records, in which case the term becomes the author's life plus 70 years).