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    <p>See "Getting paid in full when someone sends you a bank wire" at
      <a
href="https://blog.oppedahl.com/getting-paid-in-full-when-someone-sends-you-a-bank-wire/"
        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://blog.oppedahl.com/getting-paid-in-full-when-someone-sends-you-a-bank-wire/</a>
      .  Your Canadian sender very likely screwed you over by setting
      field number 71a to "SHA" or worse yet, "BEN".</p>
    <p>Ask your sender what value they selected for field 71a.</p>
    <p>When this happens, we normally then send the other party a Stripe
      invoice for the missing $20.  We invite them to pay it by credit
      card.  Eventually they realize that they can save some trouble by
      just changing the field 71a to "OUR".<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/24/2023 10:10 PM, Richard Schafer
      wrote:<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Goudy Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D">Wise
            recently changed the payment details for receiving money
            into my USD account at Wise. The first time someone tried to
            wire funds from the Royal Bank of Canada in USD to my USD
            account at Wise (which meant a SWIFT transaction), someone
            charged a $20 fee, so I received $20 less than intended. The
            client sent me the information they received from RBC, which
            indicated that RBC had charged the client a wire payment
            fee, but the payment amount RBC had wired to me was the
            correct amount. There doesn’t appear to be any intermediary
            bank other than the Community Federal Savings Bank that Wise
            uses for receiving USD wire payments, so it looks like CFSB
            silently charged me a $20 wire transfer fee, on top of the
            $4.14 Wise fee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Goudy Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Goudy Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D">I
            tried to confirm that with Wise customer service, but they
            were completely unhelpful, saying that they have “no access
            to external fees applied other than our regular wise fee”
            and that due to the nature of SWIFT transactions, they have
            no control over what banks can take.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Goudy Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Goudy Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D">Has
            anyone else seen this behavior?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Goudy Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Goudy Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Best
              regards,<br>
              <b>Richard A. Schafer | Schafer IP Law</b></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><br>
            </span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Goudy Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">P.O.
              Box 230081 | Houston, TX 77223<br>
              M: 832.283.6564 | </span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Goudy Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D"><a
                href="mailto:richard@schafer-ip.com"
                moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="color:#0563C1">richard@schafer-ip.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">From:</span></b><span
                style="font-size:11.0pt"> E-trademarks
                <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:e-trademarks-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com"><e-trademarks-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com></a>
                <b>On Behalf Of </b>Carl Oppedahl via E-trademarks<br>
                <b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 23, 2023 5:17 AM<br>
                <b>To:</b> For trademark practitioners. This is not for
                laypersons to seek legal advice.
                <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com"><e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com></a><br>
                <b>Cc:</b> Carl Oppedahl <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:carl@oppedahl.com"><carl@oppedahl.com></a><br>
                <b>Subject:</b> [E-trademarks] XE versus Wise (was Good,
                Inexpensive service for bank wire payments)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p>Round-trips of money going to and from a bricks-and-mortar
          bank account cost money.<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p>And yes, the currency exchange fee (if any) is something to
          consider as a distinct cost from a foreign money transfer fee.<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p>So for example if I already have a balance in CAD, and if I
          am sending CAD to (let's say) a trademark firm in Canada that
          invoices us in CAD, then there is no need for any currency
          conversion fee.  The only service that I need to purchase is
          "get the CAD from here to there".<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p>And with Wise, this fee is CAD 3.57.<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p>So let's go step by step.  If we start with $744.01 and
          convert it at XE's midmarket rate of 1.36837 to CAD, you would
          get CAD1018.19. 
          <o:p></o:p></p>
        <p>With Wise, if we start with $744.01 and convert it to CAD,
          there is a two-step calculation.  First there is a currency
          conversion fee of USD 3.85.  The leftover USD is 740.16.  this
          gets converted to CAD using Wise's conversion rate of 1.36840
          which deviates from mid-market rate by only about 0.2%.  This
          yields CAD 1012.83.  <o:p></o:p></p>
        <p>Now suppose what we are doing with these newly acquired CAD
          is sending them to the Canadian trademark firm.  That costs
          the above-mentioned fee of CAD 3.57.  So the Canadian firm
          would receive CAD 1009.26 if Wise were used.<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p>But on this same set of starting conditions, if XE is used,
          the Canadian trademark firm receives only CAD 997.35.<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p>So XE is charging maybe CAD 11.91 more, but it is hidden away
          in the exchange rate.<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p>But there is another aspect that maybe has not been
          mentioned, namely where exactly the $744.01 comes from.<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p>If XE.com is used, I wonder if the $744.01 is getting pulled
          from a bricks-and-mortar bank account?  If so, then there is
          an ACH fee hidden away in the currency exchange rate.<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p>If Wise is used, then we can talk about any of several places
          the $744.01 can come from.  If it comes from our USD balance
          at Wise, then there is no ACH fee.  if it comes from our
          bricks-and-mortar bank account, then there is an ACH fee of
          something like 51¢.  <o:p></o:p></p>
        <p>But anyway on a first look, the XE approach loses maybe 1.2%
          compared with the Wise approach. 
          <o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal">On 11/22/2023 6:18 PM, Jim Larsen wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Yes,
              real numbers:  Canadian firm charged $997.35 CAD.  I
              entered that amount and XE calculated the U.S. dollars
              needed, pulled it from my bank account, and transferred
              the calculated amount in under two business days.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Best
                  regards,<br>
                   <br>
                  -Jim<br>
                   <br>
                  James C. Larsen<br>
                  Attorney<br>
                  Larsen IP PLLC<br>
                  p: 425.298.6846<br>
                  e: <a href="mailto:jim@Larsen-IP.com"
                    moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="color:#0563C1">jim@Larsen-IP.com</span></a><br>
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                      style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
                    </span></b><span
                    style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Carl Oppedahl <a
                      href="mailto:carl@oppedahl.com"
                      moz-do-not-send="true">
                      <carl@oppedahl.com></a><br>
                    <b>Date: </b>Wednesday, November 22, 2023 at 3:51
                    PM<br>
                    <b>To: </b>For trademark practitioners. This is not
                    for laypersons to seek legal advice.
                    <a href="mailto:e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com"
                      moz-do-not-send="true"><e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com></a><br>
                    <b>Subject: </b>Re: [E-trademarks] Good,
                    Inexpensire service for bank wire payments</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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              <p>can you quote the overall results?  You were charged a
                total of some number of USD, and the Canadian firm
                received how many CAD?<o:p></o:p></p>
              <p>I'd like to see what it would have cost to do the same
                thing in Wise.<o:p></o:p></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">On
                    11/22/2023 4:23 PM, Jim Larsen via E-trademarks
                    wrote:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I just
                    started using XE.com for U.S.->foreign
                    transfers.  No (separate) wire fee.  Indeed, the
                    entire cost of the transaction is built into the
                    exchange rate.  Example: I recently sent payment to
                    a Canadian firm.  Spot rate was </span><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Noto Sans",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">1
                    USD = 1.3405 CAD.  My calculations suggest this is
                    about 2.9% worse than public spot FX price (average
                    of about 1.38 that day).  So, similar to credit card
                    fees for most services for domestic transactions. 
                    Customer service (on my admittedly low volume so
                    far) was excellent.  I had several calls setting
                    things up and they were very helpful.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Best
                        regards,<br>
                         <br>
                        -Jim<br>
                         <br>
                        James C. Larsen<br>
                        Attorney<br>
                        Larsen IP PLLC<br>
                        p: 425.298.6846<br>
                        e: <a href="mailto:jim@Larsen-IP.com"
                          moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                            style="color:#0563C1">jim@Larsen-IP.com</span></a><br>
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                            style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
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                          style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">E-trademarks
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<e-trademarks-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com></a> on behalf of Lara
                          Pearson via E-trademarks
                          <a
href="mailto:e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com" moz-do-not-send="true"><e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com></a><br>
                          <b>Date: </b>Wednesday, November 22, 2023 at
                          12:46 PM<br>
                          <b>To: </b>For trademark practitioners. This
                          is not for laypersons to seek legal advice.
                          <a
href="mailto:e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com" moz-do-not-send="true"><e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com></a><br>
                          <b>Cc: </b>Lara Pearson <a
                            href="mailto:lara@brandgeek.net"
                            moz-do-not-send="true"><lara@brandgeek.net></a><br>
                          <b>Subject: </b>Re: [E-trademarks] Good,
                          Inexpensire service for bank wire payments</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> I
                            pay using a Corp Platinum Amex as often as
                            possible b/t there are no foreign
                            transaction fees, but not all firms take CCs
                            or Amex. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">WISE
                            is not available in Nevada. My bank makes me
                            go in to make a foreign wire & charges
                            $30/per.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Any
                            runners-up to Wise?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Thanks!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Holiday
                            cheers!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                                              <p style="margin:0in"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Lara
                                                  Pearson (she/her/hers)</span><span
style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <span
style="color:#222222">[</span><a
href="https://medium.com/gender-inclusivit/why-i-put-pronouns-on-my-email-signature-and-linkedin-profile-and-you-should-too-d3dc942c8743"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="color:#1155CC">Why pronouns</span></a>?<span
style="color:#222222">] (<a href="https://namedrop.io/larapearson"
moz-do-not-send="true">Hear how I say my name</a>)</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
                                              <p style="margin:0in"><span
style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Law
                                                  Office of Lara Pearson
                                                  Ltd, PBC</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                                              <p style="margin:0in"><span
style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Leader,
                                                  Brand Geek</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">A Law
                                                  Firm Run by and for
                                                  Soulfulpreneurs<sup>SM</sup></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"><a
href="mailto:Lara@BrandGeek.net" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">Lara@BrandGeek.net</a> | Ph:
                                                  775.833.1600 | </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1155CC;background:white"><a
href="http://brandgeek.net/about/" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
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                                              <p style="margin:0in"><b><span
style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#009900;background:white">Leading
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                                                    Planet (since
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                                                    & American
                                                    Sustainable Business
                                                    Network (formerly
                                                    SVN) (since January
                                                    2009).</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#009900;background:white">Save
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                                                    Wašišiw ("people
                                                    from here,"
                                                    sometimes translated
                                                    as Wa She Shu) of
                                                    the Great Basin,
                                                    past, present, and
                                                    future. I honor with
                                                    gratitude this
                                                    sacred land itself
                                                    and the
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href="https://washoetribe.us/" moz-do-not-send="true">Washoe Tribe</a>.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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                        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                            style="font-size:11.0pt">On Tue, Nov 21,
                            2023 at 3:09 PM Richard Schafer via
                            E-trademarks <<a
href="mailto:e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com" moz-do-not-send="true"
                              class="moz-txt-link-freetext">e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com</a>>
                            wrote:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Goudy Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D">Wise
                                  has been a godsend for my solo
                                  practice. Highly recommended.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Goudy Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Goudy Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D">Best
                                  regards,<br>
                                  <b>Richard A. Schafer | Schafer IP Law</b></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#1F497D"><br>
                                </span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Goudy Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D">P.O.
                                  Box 230081 | Houston, TX 77223<br>
                                  M: 832.283.6564 | <a
                                    href="mailto:richard@schafer-ip.com"
                                    moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                                      style="color:#0563C1">richard@schafer-ip.com</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Goudy Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                                      style="font-size:11.0pt">From:</span></b><span
                                    style="font-size:11.0pt">
                                    E-trademarks <<a
href="mailto:e-trademarks-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com"
                                      moz-do-not-send="true"
                                      class="moz-txt-link-freetext">e-trademarks-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com</a>>
                                    <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dineen Wasylik
                                    via E-trademarks<br>
                                    <b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 21,
                                    2023 11:14 AM<br>
                                    <b>To:</b> For trademark
                                    practitioners. This is not for
                                    laypersons to seek legal advice.
                                    <<a
href="mailto:e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com" moz-do-not-send="true"
                                      class="moz-txt-link-freetext">e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com</a>><br>
                                    <b>Cc:</b> Dineen Wasylik <<a
                                      href="mailto:dineen@wasylik.net"
                                      moz-do-not-send="true"
                                      class="moz-txt-link-freetext">dineen@wasylik.net</a>>;
                                    <a
href="mailto:patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com" moz-do-not-send="true"
                                      class="moz-txt-link-freetext">patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com</a><br>
                                    <b>Subject:</b> Re: [E-trademarks]
                                    Good, Inexpensire service for bank
                                    wire payments</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                                    style="font-size:11.0pt">I agree
                                    with Carlk, though I think they now
                                    call it just "wise" but
                                    <a href="http://wise.com"
                                      moz-do-not-send="true">wise.com</a>
                                    is what I have based on
                                    recommendations from other
                                    practitioners.  It is easy and much
                                    less expensive than bank-based
                                    wires.  It handles
                                    currency conversion much better than
                                    my bank folks did, too.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                                      style="font-size:11.0pt">Best,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
                                      style="font-size:11.0pt">Dineen</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                                      style="font-size:11.0pt">On Tue,
                                      Nov 21, 2023 at 5:58 AM Carl
                                      Oppedahl via E-trademarks <<a
href="mailto:e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com" moz-do-not-send="true"
                                        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com</a>>
                                      wrote:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
                                      style="font-size:11.0pt">See
                                      <br>
                                      <a
href="https://blog.oppedahl.com/eventually-every-patent-and-trademark-firm-will-have-a-transferwise-account/"
                                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                                        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://blog.oppedahl.com/eventually-every-patent-and-trademark-firm-will-have-a-transferwise-account/</a><br>
                                      <br>
                                      On 11/20/2023 10:53 PM, voyer---
                                      via E-trademarks wrote:<br>
                                      > A year or maybe more ago,
                                      there was elist discussion of a
                                      good, inexpensive service for bank
                                      wire services.<br>
                                      > At least internationally,
                                      perhaps also domestic.  My saved
                                      copy is now hiding from me.<br>
                                      > Would appreciate contact info
                                      for that service, and it is stlil
                                      a good recommendation. Thanks,<br>
                                      ><br>
                                      > Daniel Kegan *  847-452-2599<br>
                                      > Baron Harris Healey, Of
                                      Counsel<br>
                                      > <<a
href="mailto:DKegan@BHHLawFirm.com" moz-do-not-send="true"
                                        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">DKegan@BHHLawFirm.com</a>><br>
                                      > <<a
                                        href="http://www.BHHLawFirm.com"
                                        moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.BHHLawFirm.com</a>><br>
                                      > Balanced Counsel for Smart
                                      Clients®<br>
                                      > 29 Kendal Dr<br>
                                      > Kennett Square PA 19348-2323
                                      USA<br>
                                      -- <br>
                                      E-trademarks mailing list<br>
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href="mailto:E-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com" moz-do-not-send="true"
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href="http://oppedahl-lists.com/mailman/listinfo/e-trademarks_oppedahl-lists.com"
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                                        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://oppedahl-lists.com/mailman/listinfo/e-trademarks_oppedahl-lists.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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