New USPTO Rule: Applicants and Registrants to Provide Email Address

That requirement is effective as of 5 October 2019 and applies even for applications that already identify an appointed attorney for USPTO communications. The email address will appear in the USPTO’s public records and will not be private. Accordingly, our recommendation is to provide a general contact email address rather than one associated with a particular person to avoid the necessity of frequent updates/revisions with internal changes of personnel. And, of course, to make sure that general email address is monitored for incoming communications.

Authored by Julia Matheson