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Trademark Makes It Time to Rethink Terms for Multiple Employer Plans
The Pension Protection Act Blog Link to more items from this source
May 25, 2012
"[O]n March 14, 2012, a firm in Tennessee filed a trademark application with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for the term 'The Open MEP' [saying it] refers to 'consulting services in the field of retirement plan administration and fiduciary compliance; financial administration of retirement plans', and that they have been using this term to describe their business since Oct. 31, 2004. While multiple employer plans with adopting employers sharing a common plan design or investment strategy have been around longer than Oct. 31, 2004, referring to them as 'open MEPs' is such a misnomer that there should be no fight within the industry over this trademark."

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