Response to Suspension Inquiry or Letter of Suspension

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Response to Suspension Inquiry or Letter of Suspension

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Response to Suspension Inquiry or Letter of Suspension

Please enter the serial number of the pending application for which you wish to respond to a Suspension
Inquiry or Letter of Suspension. Then, click on the CONTINUE button, below. NOTE: You must
respond to a Suspension Inquiry by the deadline indicated in the Suspension Inquiry. If the deadline in the
Suspension Inquiry is not known, please access the USPTO website at TSDR System
(http://tsdr.uspto.gov/), insert the application serial number, and view the applicable prosecution history
event.
Although not required, you may use this form to respond to an actual Letter of Suspension, to
present arguments in favor of removal of the application from suspension. The Applicant's election
not to present argument during suspension will not affect the applicant's right to present argument later
should a refusal, in fact, issue at a later point. If a refusal does issue, the applicant must respond by the
deadline indicated in that Office action.Within this form, you may also enter additional data to satisfy an
existing requirement(s) or other matter if appropriate, for example, to amend the listing of
goods/services/the nature of the collective membership organization or enter a disclaimer.
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you will lose any unsaved data in the form. Please have all of your information ready before you start.
Required fields are indicated with an asterisk (*).

TO ACCESS THE RESPONSE FORM:
STEP 1: CHECK STATUS.
To use this form, the "Current Status" of your application must be either "An Office action suspending further
action on the application has been sent (issued) to the applicant" or "A suspension inquiry has been sent
(issued) to the applicant." Use the Trademark Status & Document Retrieval (TSDR) (https://tsdr.uspto.gov) to
confirm the status before proceeding. If the application is not in the correct status, you must wait until the
status is updated (usually 48-72 hours after receiving an email notice that an Office action has issued).
Otherwise, you will receive an error message when you click the "Continue" button at the bottom of the page.
STEP 2: ENTER APPLICATION SERIAL NUMBER BELOW OR ACCESS PREVIOUSLY FILLEDOUT/SAVED FORM.
* Serial
Number:

(required only if completing a new response form; otherwise, access saved
form, below)

OR
To upload a previously saved form file, first review the TEAS Help instructions for accessing
previously saved data and then use the "Browse..." button below to access the form file saved on your
computer. WARNING: Failure to follow the TEAS Help instructions will result in the inability to edit your
data.
NOTE: This button should not be used to attempt to upload or attach any other file, for example, a
specimen file or a foreign registration certificate. For these or any other types of attachments, after
answering "Yes" to the appropriate wizard question(s), you can then attach the file within the
specific part of the form relating to that issue.

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