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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#002060">I wish that INTA would sponsor a seminar about this and related issues at their annual meetings, although I suspect they’d be hard pressed to get anyone from the PTO to come and speak.
And, yet, the proposed new fees would do little or nothing to address any of this. <sigh><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri"><font color="#4d4d4d"><font face="Calibri"><strong>Leesa N. 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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm doing a clearance for a potential mark for a client. One registered
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mark is clearly a sham; Photoshopped specimen, long list of unrelated <br>
goods, Shopify store no longer exists, the proof of sale submitted as a <br>
specimen shows that the order was created, marked paid, and fulfilled <br>
all in the same minute. I don't know why the obvious Photoshop isn't a <br>
flag to take a little harder look at the rest of the specimen?<br>
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When I Googled the address for the second, the first hit is a news <br>
article about scams run from the address, which is used by at least 21 <br>
registered agents, the particular one mentioned in the article the agent <br>
for over 50,000 companies. How is that address a domicile?<br>
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How is it that our clients get caught trying to use a WeWork address but <br>
obvious fraudulent applications like this get registered?<br>
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Pam<br>
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Pamela S. Chestek<br>
Chestek Legal<br>
300 Fayetteville St.<br>
Unit 2492<br>
Raleigh, NC 27602<br>
+1 919-800-8033<br>
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