No. CS/SB 696
Registration of Trademarks; Requiring the Department of State to use the international schedule of classes of goods and services for trademarks; deleting provisions relating to the classification of goods and services for trademark purposes; providing online application requirements; requiring the department to establish and maintain a secure Internet website that allows submission of an online trademark registration application and renewal application, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDThe Department of State must build a secure website letting people file trademark registration and renewal applications online, including an electronic drawing of the mark, an electronic specimen, and electronic fee payment, available no later than December 31, 2027.
Florida drops its own home-grown list of 45 trademark classes and instead adopts the federal government's international classification schedule, so Florida's class system automatically tracks whatever that federal schedule says going forward.
Paper applications still need three physical specimens of the mark. Online applications instead need only a single electronic specimen, and every application's required verification may now be done electronically as well as on paper.
AIThe Department of State no longer classifies trademarks using Florida's own enumerated list of 45 goods-and-services classes. It must instead use the international schedule set out in a federal regulation, so Florida's classes update automatically as that federal rule changes.
AIThe department has to create and maintain a secure website letting applicants submit a trademark registration application, a renewal application, an electronic drawing of the mark, and the required fee, all online, no later than December 31, 2027.
AIA paper application must still include three physical specimens or facsimiles of the mark as used. An online application, filed through the new website, needs only a single electronic copy of the specimen instead.
AIApplicants signing and verifying a trademark application no longer need a paper-only process; verification can be completed electronically under Florida's general verification and electronic-transaction laws.