The International Trademark Association has moved back its annual meeting to November and relocated the event to Houston in hopes that the COVID-19 pandemic will be under control by then.

INTA had planned an in-person meeting for May 1-5 in San Diego. The New York City-based association will instead hold a hybrid event Nov. 15-19, with the in-person portions taking place in Houston.

"We've pushed the Meeting into the fourth quarter (of 2021) in the hope that an in-person gathering will be feasible then," INTA CEO Etienne Sanz de Acedo said in a letter to members.

INTA is one of several associations that have pushed back meetings to the latter half of 2021 in hopes that business travel will have picked up by then. Most recently, AVIXA announced InfoComm 2021 has been moved from June to October, although the event will remain in Orlando. The National Confectioners Association announced late last year it was moving back the date of its annual trade show from May in Chicago to June in Indianapolis.

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