On April 29, 2020, the USPTO announced further extensions to certain patent and trademark deadlines under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), which grants the USPTO temporary authority to toll, waive, adjust, or modify timing deadlines due to COVID-19. This announcement supersedes the previously released March 31, 2020 notice. The time to file certain documents and to pay certain required fees, which otherwise would have been due between March 27 and May 31, is now extended to June 1, 2020.

For additional details, see the USPTO's:

For more information on the previously released notice, see Legal Update, USPTO and US Copyright Office Extend Certain Timing Deadlines Under CARES Act.

For an up-to-date record of COVID-19 practice changes at the USPTO and other courts and agencies related to the Intellectual Property and Technology practice, see Article, COVID-19: Intellectual Property & Technology Practice Changes.