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<p>You are right of course. Thank you for posting.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/2/2024 12:16 PM, Edward Timberlake
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make sense to start the year with a gentle reminder to those
of us with law licenses that it's entirely possible we come
across as entitled a$$holes when we indulge in declarations
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influencing who gets a law license and who becomes a
paralegal), it wouldn't surprise me if we sound more than a
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at
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I don't think so. I think I recall that there is a
place where you can resubmit something to the
assignments branch without a new fee.</div>
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I can go dig up my notes from October if anyone
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I think this is the opposite of them giving legal
advice. They are trained to look for the magic word
and bounce it if they do not see it; it is then up
to you to resubmit based on YOUR legal conclusion
that it is nevertheless effective and you understand
that you are filing at your own risk.</div>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">And I
suppose each of these submissions, successful or
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<div>On 1/2/2024 10:59 AM, Janet Satterthwaite via
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I had this happen recently where the
assignment was drafted under Russian law in in
Russian translated in to English, and did not
have the magic word "goodwill" so it was
bounced the same way. There was no way we
could go back and get a revised agreement due
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I believe I posed the answer at the time, in
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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 the goodwill.</div>
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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
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">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.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">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.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">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.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">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 all that she
needed to do, she explained.<br>
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<div>On 1/2/2024 10:34 AM, Katherine Markert
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<span
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never professed to be an
administrative law expert, nor do I
think you were suggesting that I
proclaimed myself as such.
</span><span
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I would appreciate you clarifying some
of your response, for my own
edification.
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<span
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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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<span
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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 “goodwill”), 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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<b>From:</b> E-trademarks <a
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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.
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [E-trademarks]
paralegals that think they are smarter
than lawyers</p>
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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.</p>
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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.</p>
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On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 11:40 AM Carl
Oppedahl via E-trademarks <<a
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<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">I am baffled at a recent
interaction with the USPTO's
Assignment Division. <br>
<br>
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="
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<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">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 right of
the submitting party to take the
action. </p>
</blockquote>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">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:</p>
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style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt">
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">The assignment document
submitted for recording is not
acceptable. The statement for
the Goodwill of the business was
omitted. 15 USC § 1060(a)</p>
</blockquote>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">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.</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">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.)
</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">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.</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">Yes, we have unauthorized
practice of law going on here at
the USPTO.</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">I am torn between two possible
ways of dealing with this bounce
from the Assignment Division.</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">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.</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">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.</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">Either path requires me to
spend professional time dealing
with the bounce, time that I
probably cannot bill to the
client.</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">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".</p>
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