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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Thanks for the laugh, Lara. I will now commit to memory these first two lines as some of the greatest poetry ever written!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Lara Pearson <lara@brandgeek.net>
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<b>To:</b> For trademark practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek legal advice. <e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Heather Vargas <Heather.Vargas@cobbcole.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [E-trademarks] Withdrawn from publication - TWICE!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Heather, oh no!<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But better all this happen in just one file<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Even though it's taking quite a while<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It could be happening in multiple cases<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And then you'd have to see all those client's disappointed faces <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">When you tell them Gov't has clearly lost its mind<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cause what else can you do with the PTO's gaffes?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Law Office of Lara Pearson Ltd, PBC & Brand Geek<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Calendly.com/BrandGeek (let's meet)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">On Apr 9, 2024, at 4:24<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span>PM, Heather Vargas 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 class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Dear Colleagues,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">I have posted to this esteemed group a few times over the last couple of years about a truly cursed set of applications that I filed in September of 2021 and that have encountered every possible glitch, malady,
and maladministration the PTO has to offer. They have been examined, reexamined, approved, unapproved, sent for publication, withdrawn from publication, approved again, and then withdrawn from publication again. I have been practicing at the PTO for more
than 20 years and have never had an application withdrawn from publication twice. It has happened to most of the applications in this set and for those that it hasn’t, it is only because they got stuck somewhere on the way back from their first withdrawal
and sat in limbo for a year.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">And so, I just have to ask, has anyone else had an application withdrawn from publication TWICE?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">BTW, the new objection from this second round of review at pub and issue? Descriptiveness. The mark has been in use for almost 50 years and only after 2 and half years of pendency and two trips to pub and
issue has someone decided that the mark is descriptive!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">I honestly am at a loss.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Vent complete,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Florida Bar No. 230900<br>
Board Certified in Intellectual Property Law<br>
Cobb Cole<br>
149 S. Ridgewood Avenue<br>
Suite 700<br>
Daytona Beach, FL 32114<br>
(D) 386-323-9220 | (F) 386-323-9206<br>
<a href="https://cobbcole.com/">Website</a> | <a href="https://cobbcole.com/attorney/heather-bond-vargas/">
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