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What Carl says!!! </div>
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On Wednesdays, the new registration numbers for the week usually appear on TM Search.</div>
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Curiously, only198 trademarks are retrieved for the search <b>RD:20240409</b> of yesterday's registration date. That's an unusually small number of registrations issued yesterday. But it gets worse.</div>
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Only 6 trademarks for <b>RD:20240409 AND RN:*</b>, indicating only 6 of the trademarks having the 9 April 2024 registration date actually have registration numbers on TM Search today, namely</div>
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7351990</div>
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BYOA OFFICIAL</div>
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97847645</div>
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03/20/23</div>
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7353122</div>
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KEMINI</div>
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97121947</div>
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11/12/21</div>
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CLEOPATRA'S VAULT</div>
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11/22/21</div>
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BELIEVE IN SANTA</div>
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where clearly the registration numbers are not consecutive.</div>
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With only 6 new registrations on TM Search, my count of pending applications is now 944,212 versus 944,212 yesterday. (Normally, the count of pending applications drops significantly on Wednesdays.) Five weeks ago (6 March 2024), the count of pending applications
was 930,634. With this week's snafu(?), pendency has grown by 13,578 applications in the last 5 weeks, hardly a desirable trend for pendency. So it goes.</div>
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Happy Trademarking,</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> E-trademarks <e-trademarks-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com> on behalf of Carl Oppedahl via E-trademarks <e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 10, 2024 3:48 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> for trademark practitioners <e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Carl Oppedahl <carl@oppedahl.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [E-trademarks] Was your Official USPTO Notice of Registration broken yesterday?</font>
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<p>If you have a trademark case that registered yesterday at the USPTO, I am guessing your
<i>Official USPTO Notice of Registration</i> was broken, as described in <a href="https://blog.oppedahl.com/uspto-trademark-databases-broken/" originalsrc="https://blog.oppedahl.com/uspto-trademark-databases-broken/" shash="r0qDpjENeZd5lBZYxdqTH+93obcvN2Jk8/a5Ns9xlbtWmNrB1IBb96bztA4k352QYWBddStgvsEjOENhSbmxEZDGp2/KD87uo26RNjyI4vFppVw59+28dc4UCxgDteRFrXfFEDHmk8GBoiR6qDk4y/wzujbSWvMamaeVFlQAmRs=">
this blog article</a>.<br>
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