The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has announced through TSDR that multiple registrations appearing in the September 8, 2026 Trademark Official Gazette contained incorrect or missing registration numbers, preventing those matters from completing registration successfully. The USPTO has updated the status of affected cases and plans to correct the issue and reissue registration certificates in the September 15 issue. The problem appears to be a registration-processing and data error rather than a broad change to substantive examination outcomes, but it can still affect how firms confirm registration completion and manage downstream deadlines.
Practitioners should review matters handled in the September 8 batch and avoid relying solely on previously downloaded certificates or older records as proof that registration was completed. After September 15, the corrected certificate should be downloaded again and the registration number, registration date, and current TSDR status checked case by case before maintenance dates are recalibrated. Firms should not assume that all affected registration dates or related deadlines will move forward by the same amount; the corrected USPTO record should control.
