As a result, the trademark office was swamped with 265,000 applications in 1999 - a 32 percent jump over 1998.

The trademark office has received applications for the Titanic name for years.

So over time the Patent and Trademark Office changed their approach.

He only told neighbors about the dispute last week when he learned that the federal trademark office was nearing a decision.

In fact, the number of applications had increased so much that the Trademark Office was overwhelmed with paperwork.

I asked whether he could update me on the testing of BarrierCloth for the trademark office.

The law gives the Patent and Trademark Office at least a year to put the new rules into effect.

But even though the number has declined, the volume of applications is still taxing the staff of the trademark office.

But some legal experts wonder whether Entrepreneur Media did not just grab a questionable decision by the trademark office and run with it.

But they brought no high technology to the event, which is sponsored by the Patent and Trademark Office.