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{{Short description|Official publication of trademarks in the United States}}
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The '''''Trademark Official Gazette''''' '''(TMOG)''' is a weekly publication of the [[United States Patent and Trademark Office]] (USPTO) which publishes newly registered [[trademark]]s. Once a trademark application has been examined by a USPTO examining attorney and found to be entitled to registration, it is published in the Official Gazette of the USPTO.<ref name=":0"/>

==Overview==
The Official Gazette provides anyone who believes they would be damaged by the registration of a published mark with an opportunity to challenge the proposed registration. Upon its publication, anyone who believes that the registering party's use of the mark might damage him or her has 30 days in which to file an opposition to the registration. If such an opposition is made, the registering party will be informed and then must fight it or abandon the trademark. If no oppositions are filed, or if any opposition is successfully overcome, the application will proceed to registration.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Trademark Official Gazette|url=https://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/official-gazette/trademark-official-gazette-tmog|access-date=2021-08-17|website=www.uspto.gov|language=en-US}}</ref>

==Version==
On September 24, 2013, a new web-based version of the Trademark Official Gazette was made available to the general public; the last paper edition of the Trademark Official Gazette, published by the [[United States Government Publishing Office|Government Printing Office]], was the December 25, 2012 edition.<ref name=":0" />

==See also==
* [[United States Patent and Trademark Office]]
* [[List of intellectual property law journals]]
* [[Patent Office Professional Association]] (POPA)
* [[Trademark Trial and Appeal Board]] (TTAB)
* [[Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure]] (TMEP)

==References==
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* [https://eog-tmng.uspto.gov/ Official version of the Gazette, from USPTO]
* [http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/resources/tm_og_faqs.jsp  Official TMOG FAQ page, from USPTO]
* [http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/resources/tmog_archive.jsp  TMOG PDF files from previous years, from USPTO]
* [http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/notices/new_OG.jsp download instructions for the "optimized" Trademark Official Gazette]

==External links==
*[http://tmog.uspto.gov The web searchable version of the Trademark Official Gazette]
*[https://storage.googleapis.com/tmogdocs/TMOG_Search.pdf Trademark Official Gazette, User Guide, Steps for Searching]

[[Category:Government gazettes]]
[[Category:Works about trademark law]]
[[Category:Publications of the United States government]]
[[Category:United States trademark law]]
[[Category:United States Department of Commerce]]

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