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I don't know about your first question, but I think the answer to
the second is "no":<br>
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<i>An applicant must file a claim of priority within six months
after the filing date of the foreign application. 15 U.S.C.
§1126(d)(1); 37 C.F.R. §§2.34(a)(4)(i), 2.35(b)(5); Paris
Convention Article 4(C)(3). The applicant can submit the priority
claim after the filing date of the U.S. application, as long as
the claim of priority is submitted within six months of the
foreign filing and the claimed priority date is earlier than the
filing date of the U.S. application.... If the applicant submits a
claim of priority more than six months after the date of the
foreign filing, the examining attorney must advise the applicant
that it is not entitled to priority.</i><br>
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<a
href="https://tmep.uspto.gov/RDMS/TMEP/current#/current/TMEP-1000d1e194.html">TMEP
1003.02</a>. Which would make the answer to the third question
"yes."<br>
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Pam<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/13/2024 2:05 PM, Katherine Koenig
via E-trademarks wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi everyone, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I understand a US application may claim
priority to more than one foreign application/registration and
that any foreign application/registration to which priority is
claimed must be the first filed.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have a situation that I’ve not
encountered before regarding a divisional trademark
application in Australia:<o:p></o:p></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">US
application filed within 6 months of Australian priority
application (AU1).<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">AU1
registered, and we submitted a copy to the USPTO.
<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">During
examination of AU1, several classes were divided out into a
divisional application (AU2), which AU counsel has told me
gets the filing date of the parent AU1. AU2 was divided out
more than 6 months ago, I was told about it this week. <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">The AU1
registration has been accepted for priority only for the US
classes in the AU1 registration, not for the classes divided
out into AU2. Now we’d like Section 44 priority to AU2 for
the other classes.<o:p></o:p></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Can we validly claim priority to AU2 in the
US application, as well as AU1? AU2 is a first-filed
application (to my knowledge). Can we claim priority if AU2
was divided out more than 6 months ago, but is tied to the
parent AU1 to which the priority claim was timely? Or must we
add (back) a Section 1 basis for the classes that were divided
out of AU1?
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