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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D">Just to add a thought to Ed’s post: I can remember several times when a paralegal saved me, and can’t recall a single time when I had to save a paralegal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Edward Timberlake via E-trademarks<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 2, 2024 11:16 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> For trademark practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek legal advice. <e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Edward Timberlake <ed@timberlakelaw.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [E-trademarks] Perhaps Lawyers Who Think They're Smart Could Weigh Their Words More Carefully<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 1:21 PM Janet Satterthwaite via E-trademarks <<a href="mailto:e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com">e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in">And I suppose each of these submissions, successful or not, incurred yet another $45 government fee.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">I believe I posed the answer at the time, in October 2023, but here is an updated version from memory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">I called and asked how to I submit a response to this arguing that while the magic word is not there, it is clear that the document as a whole does effectively transfer
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">I was told to just resubmit it without any argument (there is no place to enter any argument) and that she would alert the Examiner. This failed the first time b/c
she didn't get to the Examiner in time, but then we did it again and it was accepted with a verbal caution that we are aware that there is a risk that the assignment is not proper.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in">Not to disagree with you or with David, but I think one of my main points was simply the USPTO behaving in a way that contradicts its own public statement of what its behavior is supposed to be.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in">The public statement is that the USPTO does not carry out "a determination of the legality of the transaction" and does not "verify the validity of the information" in the document. Indeed if the USPTO were to carry out such "legality"
and "validity" analysis, it seems to me the USPTO would be wrong to put anyone but a law school graduate onto the task. For the USPTO to delegate this analysis to someone whose education is limited to a two-year community college program seems wrong.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in">And setting aside whether it is right or wrong to entrust this analysis to someone who never set foot in a law school, the plain fact is that the USPTO expressly says it doesn't and won't do such analysis. As such, it strikes me as wrong
for the USPTO to pursue a secret policy of doing such analysis when it says it doesn't and won't.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in">And it's wrong for the USPTO to have its non-lawyer telephone representative offering to send out an assignment that she says will be legally effective given that in her view the assignment that we e-filed was not legally effective. All
of this based, as she condescendingly explained, on checking to see whether the word "goodwill" did or did not appear in the document. No other analysis was needed, as she explained things. Merely checking for the presence or absence of one magic word was
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I never professed to be an administrative law expert, nor do I think you were suggesting that I proclaimed myself as such.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif">😊</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> I would appreciate you clarifying some of your response, for my own edification.
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Are you saying that the USPTO’s practice, of verifying that the cover sheet and underlying document are consistent, runs afoul of administrative law?
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">If you view it as acceptable for the USPTO to verify the cover sheet and underlying document (but don’t like the current procedure of merely looking for the term “goodwillâ€),
what is a more suitable way for the PTO’s paralegals to verify consistency of the cover sheet and underlying document in view of the administrative law angle?
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<p style="margin:0in"><b>From:</b> E-trademarks <a href="mailto:e-trademarks-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com" target="_blank">
<e-trademarks-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com></a> <b>On Behalf Of </b>David Boundy via E-trademarks<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 2, 2024 12:17 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" target="_blank"><e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com></a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> David Boundy <a href="mailto:DavidBoundyEsq@gmail.com" target="_blank">
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [E-trademarks] paralegals that think they are smarter than lawyers<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in">What would happen if you just refile with no cover explanation? the next person to pick it up may take the TMEP at face value.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in">I disagree with Katherine Market's reading of TMEP on administrative law grounds. I agree with her to the extent that use fo the magic word "goodwill" is better safe than sorry. But I agree with Carl that it's the practitioner's job
to make the legal conclusion. In my view a reading of TMEP 503.01 through the lens of the administrative law tells the PTO's paralegals not to make the legal determination for themselves or to second guess a practitioner.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in">On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 11:40 AM Carl Oppedahl via E-trademarks <<a href="mailto:e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com" target="_blank">e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in">I am baffled at a recent interaction with the USPTO's Assignment Division. <br>
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I have seen the Assignment Division cheerfully and seemingly unquestioningly record all manner of documents, some of which had less actual substantive legal content than an image scan of a used facial tissue. Such unquestioning recordation of documents is
completely consistent with what the USPTO says at <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.uspto.gov_learning-2Dand-2Dresources_transferring-2Downership-2Dassignments-2Dfaqs-23type-2Dbrowse-2Dfaqs-5F160521&d=DwMDaQ&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=BD_ODyCnGyM4QYkJS4ogIYzIigAHSpBLLoEgzCd9OOE&m=3UDrs-Y0MgSEDLn2eoQnSytbGX-sth09chvJLsh9Bvyp7vjOFa9kyT5rsob292mX&s=VmCTEITsq1TQAXplyvXaj8FKSB3QQNaXuyj-17kH6YM&e=" target="_blank">
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<p style="margin:0in">The office simply puts the information on the public record and does not verify the validity of the information. Recordation is a ministerial function. The office neither makes a determination of the legality of the transaction nor the
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<p style="margin:0in">Recently I e-filed a trademark assignment document through ETAS. What came back was a Notice of Non-Recordation. The excuse given for bouncing the assignment document is a form paragraph:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in">A click on LinkedIn indicates that the sole educational credential of the signer of the Notice is a two-year stint at Prince George's Community College.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in">I will mention that the signer of the Notice is technically correct that the magic word "goodwill" is not recited in the assignment document. Suffice it to say that the words recited in the document do absolutely and without doubt convey
the goodwill despite the magic word not having been recited. (The document was drafted by someone who's not me, and it was executed prior to my firm having been asked to handle this recordation.)
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<p style="margin:0in">I phoned up the Assignment Division reaching a different person than the signer of the Notice. She confidently affirmed the propriety of the bounce, lecturing me that the word "goodwill" simply must appear in the document or it will not
legally achieve the intended change of ownership. Doubling down, she then offered to email to me an exemplary assignment document that she said would be legally effective.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in">Yes, we have unauthorized practice of law going on here at the USPTO.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in">I am torn between two possible ways of dealing with this bounce from the Assignment Division.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in">One choice would be to e-file a "resubmission" with a statement directed to the fact that the words recited do in fact convey the goodwill even if the magic word "goodwill" is not recited. My guess, based upon what the telephone representative
said, is that this would lead to a Reel and Frame Number. But of course this would put a "kick me" sign on the trademark rights. This would preserve in perpetuity the legal opinion by the USPTO about what was supposedly not conveyed, and any adversary in
litigation would seize upon this in an argument that the trademark went abandoned upon the execution of the document. Never mind that the USPTO's legal opinion came from someone with no more than a two-year credential from a community college.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in">Another choice would be to spend hours trying to craft some sort of cleanup document for signature by the same people who signed the existing assignment document. The cleanup document might include "confirmatory" language confirming that
of course the string of words that conveyed the goodwill really did convey the goodwill. It might include
<i>nunc pro tunc</i> language. It might include quitclaim language. But of course this would likewise put a "kick me" sign on the trademark rights. This would preserve in perpetuity a messy cleanup document.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in">Either path requires me to spend professional time dealing with the bounce, time that I probably cannot bill to the client.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in">None of this fuss and bother would have been needed if the person signing the bounce notice had followed the USPTO's promise not to " verify the validity" of the document and the USPTO's promise not to "make a determination of the legality
of the transaction".<o:p></o:p></p>
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