PTO Cancels 10-Year-Old CEA Logo Trademark After CTA Lets It Expire

CTA let lapse its 10-year-old trademark to the CEA logo, and the Patent and Trademark Office canceled the registration Friday, agency records show. CTA didn’t respond by the Sept. 17 deadline to PTO’s “courtesy reminder” that the trademark would soon be up for renewal. Two other active CEA trademarks are due to expire in 2023 and 2025, say PTO records. CEA applied for them not long before changing its name to CTA in November 2015 (see 1511110002). PTO granted two trademark registrations May 28, one for the full Consumer Technology Association name, the other for the CTA initials.