# Patent and Trademark Office 5 documents across 4 days of the archive, 1 of them final rules. The five most recent days are below. [HTML](https://downstream.sh/daily/agency/patent-and-trademark-office/) · [the long-form archive](https://downstream.sh/daily/agency/patent-and-trademark-office/archive.md) · [the daily issue](https://downstream.sh/daily/index.md) ## Dates this agency has set that have not yet arrived | Date | Offset | What | Document | Agency | |---|---|---|---|---| | 2026-09-16 | +12d | Comments close | [Request for Comments on Community Outreach Office Locations in the Southwest States](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/17/2026-16744/request-for-comments-on-community-outreach-office-locations-in-the-southwest-states) | Commerce Department · Patent and Trademark Office | | 2026-09-28 | +24d | Comments close | [Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Appeals](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/27/2026-17524/agency-information-collection-activities-submission-to-the-office-of-management-and-budget-for) | Commerce Department · Patent and Trademark Office | | 2026-10-26 | +52d | Comments close | [Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Substantive Submissions Made During the Prosecution of the Trademark Application](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/27/2026-17525/agency-information-collection-activities-submission-to-the-office-of-management-and-budget-for) | Commerce Department · Patent and Trademark Office | | 2027-01-01 | +119d | Takes effect | [International Trademark Classification Changes](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/26/2026-17437/international-trademark-classification-changes) | Commerce Department · Patent and Trademark Office | ## 27 August 2026 — 2 documents [the whole issue for this day](https://downstream.sh/daily/2026-08-27.md) > The Patent and Trademark Office published notices soliciting comments on information collection renewals for trademark application submissions and patent trial appeals. — via Downstream, https://downstream.sh/daily/agency/patent-and-trademark-office/#s-2026-08-27 *Machine-written by `claude-haiku-4-5-20251001` from the documents below.* ### Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Substantive Submissions Made During the Prosecution of the Trademark Application *Notice* — Commerce Department · Patent and Trademark Office The United States Patent and Trademark Office (hereafter "USPTO" or "Agency"), as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, invites comments on the extension and revision of an existing information collection: 0651-0054 (Substantive Submissions Made During the Prosecution of the Trademark Application). The purpose of this notice is to allow 60 days for public comments preceding submission of the information collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). - **Comments close** 26 October 2026 (in 52 days) 91 FR 55323 · FR Doc. 2026-17525 · [official PDF](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-08-27/pdf/2026-17525.pdf) · [federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/27/2026-17525/agency-information-collection-activities-submission-to-the-office-of-management-and-budget-for) ### Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Appeals *Notice* — Commerce Department · Patent and Trademark Office The United States Patent and Trademark Office (hereafter "USPTO" or "Agency") will submit the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, on or after the date of publication of this notice. The USPTO invites comments on the information collection renewal of 0651-0063, which helps the USPTO assess the impact of its information collection requirements and minimize the reporting burden to the public. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on April 20, 2026, during a 60-day comment period (91 FR 20986). This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. - **Comments close** 28 September 2026 (in 24 days) 91 FR 55322 · FR Doc. 2026-17524 · [official PDF](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-08-27/pdf/2026-17524.pdf) · [federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/27/2026-17524/agency-information-collection-activities-submission-to-the-office-of-management-and-budget-for) ## 26 August 2026 — 1 document [the whole issue for this day](https://downstream.sh/daily/2026-08-26.md) > The Patent and Trademark Office published a final rule incorporating international trademark classification changes effective January 1, 2027. — via Downstream, https://downstream.sh/daily/agency/patent-and-trademark-office/#s-2026-08-26 *Machine-written by `claude-haiku-4-5-20251001` from the documents below.* ### International Trademark Classification Changes *Rule* — Commerce Department · Patent and Trademark Office The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issues this final rule to incorporate classification changes adopted by the Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks (Nice Agreement). These changes are listed in the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks (13th ed., ver. 2027) (Nice Classification), which is published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and will become effective on January 1, 2027. - **Takes effect** 1 January 2027 (in 119 days) 91 FR 54963 · FR Doc. 2026-17437 · [official PDF](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-08-26/pdf/2026-17437.pdf) · [federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/26/2026-17437/international-trademark-classification-changes) ## 17 August 2026 — 1 document [the whole issue for this day](https://downstream.sh/daily/2026-08-17.md) > The Patent and Trademark Office requested comments on potential locations for community outreach offices in its Southwest Region. — via Downstream, https://downstream.sh/daily/agency/patent-and-trademark-office/#s-2026-08-17 *Machine-written by `claude-haiku-4-5-20251001` from the documents below.* ### Request for Comments on Community Outreach Office Locations in the Southwest States *Notice* — Commerce Department · Patent and Trademark Office The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO or Office) is seeking information to consider regarding the selection of locations for one or more community outreach offices (COOs) in the agency's Southwest Region, which comprises Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri. - **Comments close** 16 September 2026 (in 12 days) 91 FR 53237 · FR Doc. 2026-16744 · [official PDF](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-08-17/pdf/2026-16744.pdf) · [federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/17/2026-16744/request-for-comments-on-community-outreach-office-locations-in-the-southwest-states) ## 11 August 2026 — 1 document [the whole issue for this day](https://downstream.sh/daily/2026-08-11.md) ### Administrative Updates to the General Requirements Bulletin for Admission to the Examination for Registration To Practice in Patent Cases Before the United States Patent and Trademark Office *Notice* — Commerce Department · Patent and Trademark Office The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO or Office) announces that, after reviewing and evaluating the scientific and technical criteria for admission to practice in all patent matters, it is moving one Category B degree, Biomedical Science, to Category A, thereby expanding the admission criteria of the patent bar. In keeping pace with ever-evolving technology and related teachings that qualify someone to practice before the USPTO, this update will encourage broader participation of prospective patent practitioners. This action is being taken pursuant to the USPTO's periodic review of Category B degrees and the transition of commonly accepted Category B degrees to Category A on a predetermined timeframe, namely every three years. - **Takes effect** 11 August 2026 (24 days ago) 91 FR 51695 · FR Doc. 2026-16315 · [official PDF](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-08-11/pdf/2026-16315.pdf) · [federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/11/2026-16315/administrative-updates-to-the-general-requirements-bulletin-for-admission-to-the-examination-for) ## Ask an assistant instead Everything on this page is also a tool call. Add `mcp.downstream.sh` as an MCP server — no key, no account — then paste this: ``` Using the Downstream MCP server at mcp.downstream.sh, call whats_new_since with agency "Patent and Trademark Office" since 2026-08-11, then summarise what changed and list every deadline it created. ``` Reaches `whats_new_since`. The response carries its own citations and states what it is missing, including which dates it has no record for. --- Every document linked here is a work of the United States government and in the public domain. The Federal Register's HTML and XML renderings are unofficial; the PDF on each item is the official text, and that is the one to cite. Counts are arithmetic over published fields, dates are printed as filed, and titles are verbatim. Where we have nothing, this says nothing rather than estimating. The one-sentence agency summaries are machine-written from those same fields and are labelled where they appear. 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