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Recently, prior to filing a Section 8 & 15, I needed to update ownership of the registration. I recorded a nunc pro tunc assignment with the effective date noted in the agreement and also entered into the assignment cover sheet. Then I recorded an entity conversion.
After the two recordations, title showed in the name of the former entity and not the current entity. I called the assignment division and was told I needed to speak with the post reg division because the assignments had already been recorded. At the post
reg division, I was told in definite terms that they go by the execution date and not the effective date of a document. This was the opposite of my understanding, and it made no sense in this situation, where the nunc pro tunc assignment with an effective
date prior to the date of execution and filing of the conversion was instead deemed to be the current vesting. I ended up speaking with a helpful person in the Trademark Assistance Center, sharing with her my backup plan of entering the correct vesting and
assignment reel and frame into the miscellaneous statement section of the Section 8 & 15. She told me that the title will be updated when the 8 & 15 is processed. </div>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [E-trademarks] Nunc pro tun assignments</font>
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<div>A conversion of an entity type is different from an assignment and can be recorded. That sounds like what should be done here.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 4:44\u202fPM Pamela Chestek via E-trademarks <<a href="mailto:e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com">e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>I think the PTO has created great confusion around this, which is why the question keeps coming up<br>
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The PTO has decided that it's going to label any agreement where the effective date is not the same as the execution date as a "nunc pro tunc" assignment. If you have an ordinary assignment where those two dates are different, and try to just enter it as a
"new assignment," the form won't give you the opportunity to state the effective date. The only way to do that is to use the "nunc pro tunc" entry.<br>
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But I don't think it matters for the agreement itself. You don't need to call it a "nunc pro tunc" assignment, just call it an assignment.
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In fact I wouldn't call the first document "nunc pro tunc," I think that invites confusion. Everyone is familiar with an agreement where the effective date and signature date are different (our forms all accommodate that possibility), so calling it "nunc pro
tunc" will just be "whaaaaat??" I think "nunc pro tunc" is more properly used for the agreement itself when you've realized you made a mistake somewhere and need a do-over. Say for example, you assigned the marks to a division of a company instead of the
company itself, so you need to get it assigned to the legal entity but everything is otherwise the same, including the original effective date. In that case, you might describe it in the heading or recitals as an assignment that is nunc pro tunc to an earlier
version and replaces the earlier version of the agreement, so that the original malformed version never had legal effect.
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But before anyone gets too clever with nunc pro tunc, courts aren't necessarily going to agree that they are effective. For example, they can't be used to manufacture standing post- complaint or avoid liability. The general rule is that they are effective and
enforceable between the two parties but third parties aren't necessarily bound by them.<br>
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<div>On 2/14/2025 12:30 PM, Jessica R. Friedman via E-trademarks wrote:<br>
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