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<div class="elementToProof" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: PublicSans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=98226210&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch" target="_blank" id="OWA85897f85-96b2-f7d0-9fc4-6d1df21bfa39" class="w-100 text-center ng-star-inserted OWAAutoLink" style="text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 441.583px; text-align: center;"><img alt="Image for 98226210, select for more details" id="image_0" width="229" height="276" style="width: 229px; height: 276px; margin: 0px auto; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle;" src="https://tsdr.uspto.gov/img/98226210/large"></a></span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">A curiosity. I noticed sometime last year that 98226210 had the word mark entry
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">ESTD. 1593 LAMPERT RUM A</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">?</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">EJO
A</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">?</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">OS PRODUCT OF
PANAMA </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">and I added that serial number to my list of
<i>questionable</i> word marks (which now includes 325 live trademarks). Viewing the raw application on TSDR, the literal element provided was
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">ESTD. 1593 LAMPERT RUM AÑEJO AÑOS PRODUCT OF PANAMA
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">and my checks indicate that the two occurrences of
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(12, 100, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ñ</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"> are
the standard character capital N tilde (decimal 209), so I was surprised that the automatic load of this TEAS filing corrupted the word mark. </span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">On Valentine's Day (February 14th), I noticed that the word mark entry was updated to
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">ESTD. 1593 LAMPERT RUM AEJO A\ufffdOS PRODUCT OF PANAMA</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">,
not exactly the word mark correction I was anticipating by Pre-Exam when they added design codes to the record (though the word mark entry no longer includes the ordinary question mark{?}). The good news: the search WD:/.*\\ufffd.*/ retrieves only this rum trademark.
TSDR also shows the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">\ufffd</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"> character
in the description of mark: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The mark consists of a black background featuring the words "Lampert Rum" in gold stylized
font across a diagonal red stripe, with a gray lion-like animal on each side of the word "Rum", the words "A\ufffdEJO" and "A\ufffdOS" in gold below the word "Rum", the phrase "PRODUCT OF PANAMA" below a stylized line, and having a crest with red and gold stripes and
two gray castles with gold roofs therein and a gray lamb rising from a gold crown and red and gold flowers atop the crest, the crest being in the middle of the wording "Estd. 1593", all of the foregoing being substantially within a gold border against the
black background. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">The description of mark in the raw application looks fine. The 13 February
<i>Notice of Design Codes</i> document on TSDR for this application shows </span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">ESTD. 1593 LAMPERT RUM AEJO A</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">�</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">OS
PRODUCT OF PANAMA (Stylized/Design)</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"> as the word mark. (I would prefer
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">LAMPERT RUM ESTD. 1593 AÑEJO AÑOS PRODUCT OF PANAMA</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"> as
the word mark since LAMPERT RUM has the largest font in the drawing.)</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">But what is \ufffd?</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">Among the results of my internet search of "black diamond question mark":</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); line-height: 24px;">What does a black diamond with a question mark mean?</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);">replacement character \ufffd</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof" style="padding-bottom: 20px;"><span style="font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(77, 81, 86); line-height: 20px;">The replacement character \ufffd, a black diamond with a white question mark,
is a symbol found in the Unicode standard at codepoint U+FFFD in the Specials table. It is
</span><span style="font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(4, 12, 40); background-color: rgba(80, 151, 255, 0.18); line-height: 20px; font-weight: 500;">used to replace an unknown or unrepresentable character, or
indicate problems when a system is not able to render a stream of data to a correct symbol</span><span style="font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(77, 81, 86); line-height: 20px;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(112, 117, 122); line-height: 1.34;">Oct
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">For my final search for this
</span><span style="font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">\ufffd</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"> theme,
I returned to Basic search mode, selected the <b>Search by all</b> option and searched
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><b>/.*\\ufffd.*/</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">,
receiving an additional </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">\ufffd</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"> record,
namely <b>98226594 </b>(LN LA DÈ NIRVIQUÊ, another mid-October filing) with the following description of mark entry on TSDR:
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The mark consists of the wording "La\ufffdd\ufffdNirviqu\ufffd" in stylized font and the image above the text looks like a shield.
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The raw application on TSDR has the following description of mark:
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The mark consists of the wording "La dè Nirviquê" in stylized font and the image above the text looks like a shield.</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">Considering that these two
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(12, 100, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">\ufffd</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"> trademarks
are October filings, it will probably be several more months before examining attorneys will begin examining these trademarks?</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">Happy Presidents' Day,</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">Ken Boone</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">PS - The null GS phenomenon continues to grow. The search
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">LD:true NOT (GS:* SN:8900* SN:81* )</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"> currently retrieves
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">988</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"> trademarks without GS entries, mostly new
applications that presumably have to be manually corrected by Pre-Exam.</span></div>
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