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I tried to do a quick check of registrations issued last Tuesday. </div>
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The search <b>RD:20240430</b> retrieves 7,212 trademarks. I assumed each would have a registration number. </div>
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The search <b>RD:20240430 AND RN:*</b> only retrieves 7,080 trademarks. Same for the search
<b>RD:20240430 AND SA:registered</b>. </div>
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Alternatively, the search <b>RD:20240430 NOT RN:*</b> retrieves 132 trademarks. Same for the search
<b>RD:20240430 AND SA:review</b>. Same for the search <b>RD:20240430 AND RG:supplemental</b>. The Trademark Search
<i>status</i> LIVE PENDING is reported for these 132 trademarks, while the TSDR has
<i>Review prior to publication completed</i> as the status. (Well, the few I checked.)</div>
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These unusual occurrences (registration date entries without corresponding registration numbers) got me looking for other such occurrences. The search
<b>RD:[* TO 20240505] NOT RN:*</b> retrieves <b>191</b> trademarks. That is, for registration dates up to today, 191 trademarks have a registration date entry but do NOT include a registration number. Conveniently, that's a small enough count to export all
191 trademarks, and I have summarized those 191 trademarks by registration date (all calendar year 2024) in the following table.</div>
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Reg. Date</div>
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Principal Register</div>
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Supplemental Register</div>
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127</div>
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(Okay, something is wrong with my summary, as I only list 127 instead of 132 trademarks for 04/30/24. Ooops.)</div>
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Is this an expected behavior - that the USPTO would load a registration date for a trademark record without a registration number? Do you suppose this behavior is because the USPTO is
<span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"><i>maintaining a legacy system, Trademark Reporting And Monitoring (TRAM), as well as an updated one, and the issue will resolve when we retire TRAM</i></span>? Thoughts?</div>
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Wait. I observed a similar phenomenon with the published for opposition date field.</div>
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The search <b>PO:20240430</b> retrieves 10,864 trademarks. I assumed all those trademarks were published for opposition last Tuesday. Not so fast. The search
<b>PO:20240430 AND SA:published</b> only retrieves 10,734 trademarks. Alternatively, the search
<b>PO:20240430 AND SA:review</b> retrieves 108 trademarks, where TSDR has the status
<span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"><i>Review prior to publication completed</i></span> for the trademarks I checked. (Expanding the date range via the search
<b>PO:[* TO 20240430] AND SA:review</b> retrieves 11,324 trademarks {all live} with published for opposition date entries that have passed and the term
<b><i>review </i></b>in the SA - Status field, though since that field is NOT displayed on TM Search ...)<span style="font-weight: 700;"> </span>Again, is this the behavior that you expected for the published for opposition field? Thoughts? </div>
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