<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Mike,<div><br></div><div>Trademark Rising recently solicited my client with the same scam. Twice.</div><div><br></div><div>Luckily, my client knew to contact me whenever they receive a solicitation or \u201cofficial notice\u201d sent directly to them. But it did freak them out.</div><div><br></div><div>Trademark Rising has been doing this for quite a while. I searched the following phrase from their website and found a listserv thread about them (different company name used: Paragon) back in April and August 2023:</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Although we are not a law firm, we have a team of professional trademark experts who undergo an extensive training program to make them the best at what they do. Only after they have completed their training and passed a rigorous series of examinations can an employee be placed into service. This rigorous training leads to the expert level of services we provide.</span></blockquote><div>
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It\u2019s amazing the lengths these companies will go to.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal; float: none; display: inline !important;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal; float: none; display: inline !important;">Best regards,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal; float: none; display: inline !important;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">--</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal; float: none; display: inline !important;">Kathryn A. 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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 18, 2024, at 7:40 PM, Michael D. Steger via E-trademarks <e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr">Has anyone encountered Trademark Rising soliciting your clients with variations of the ol' "someone else is going to file an application for your name"? It appears that they operate under multiple names. Today they contacted one of my clients to advise them that someone else had filed an application for my client's brand -- I had filed the application for the solicited client. <div><br></div><div> (They may have arisen on this list before but I couldn't find anything in the archives). <br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Mike Steger</div><div><br></div><div>Law Offices of Michael D. Steger, PC<br></div><div>295 Madison Avenue, 22nd Floor</div><div>New York, NY 10017</div><div>(646) 517-0600</div><div><br></div><div>30 Ramland Road, Suite 201<br></div><div>Orangeburg, NY 10962</div><div>(845) 359-4600<br></div><div>(845) 638-2707 (fax)</div><div><a href="mailto:msteger@steger-law.com" target="_blank">msteger@steger-law.com</a></div><div><a href="http://www.steger-law.com/" target="_blank">www.steger-law.com</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mistercopyright.net/" target="_blank">www.mistercopyright.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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