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<span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">A scammer called one of my clients right after we filed an application and asked for a social security number along with the message that the application has been approved. That person immediately froze their credit.</span>
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<br><span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">The PTO seems to justify requests for additional information based on scam applications. What possible justification could there be to making the signatory's phone number public? I don't even know why they need it. Why would the PTO ever call a signatory? They should call the correspondence address of record whether that is an attorney or pro se. They're just collecting information for scammers.</span>
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<p>Feb 12, 2024 5:33:10 PM Crane, Susan via E-trademarks <e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com>:</p>
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<p>Let's see if I follow you on this. The scammer went to the trouble of looking up the phone number of the client (how does one even look up phone numbers these days?) and used that phone number to contact the client?<span style="font-size:11.0pt;"></span></p>
<p>I suppose the client might have some online presence such as a web site, with a phone number in it.</p>
<p>But wow. The scammer would go to this extra trouble? </p>
<p>Until now what I have been communicating to clients, when we file a trademark application, is that they will be getting scam letters in the mail. And I go out of my way to avoid including a client phone number in anything that I file, just as you do.</p>
<p>But now I guess what I have to do is add another sentence to the warning, namely to watch out for scam phone calls as well.</p>
<p>Dang it.</p>
<p>Thank you for posting.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif;">On 2/12/2024 3:29 PM, Crane, Susan via E-trademarks wrote:</p>
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Date: Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 2:13 PM<br>
Subject: RE: Trademark Conflict - Action Required!<br>
To: </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;"><span style="mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;font-size:11.0pt;"> I hope this email finds you well. We are writing to address a time-sensitive matter related to your trademark application named “<b>XXXXXX</b>”. Upon reviewing your application, it has come to our attention that while you initiated the trademark application process, you did not proceed with the government classifications, resulting in an incomplete filing. Unfortunately, due to this incomplete filing, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has received another application for the same trademark and name.</span></p>
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