<div dir="ltr">I don't know about the TM side. On the patent side, the MPEP has this --<div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11.2px">Full faith and credit should be given to the search and action of a previous examiner unless there is a clear error in the previous action or knowledge of other prior art. In general, an examiner should not take an entirely new approach or attempt to reorient the point of view of a previous examiner, or make a new search in the mere hope of finding something.</span></div></blockquote><br>yeah right. Try to get that enforced. The Petitions Office will make up malarky about "Oh that only applies where the prior examiner left the office" or "Only on fifth Thursdays in months with a W" or anything else.<br><br>On the patent side I'd tell you "tough luck. Suck it up." Treat it just like any other. From the examining attorney's point of view, he's just doing you a favor to keep you from getting an invalid registration.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 2:47 PM Katherine Koenig via E-trademarks <<a href="mailto:e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com">e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg28318292948355635">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Happy Friday, everyone. I’m handling a trademark case that had been allowed pending submission of the foreign registration certificate. We filed that certificate once available. That was last November, and now we just got a new refusal
from the newly assigned Examining Attorney that cites conflicting marks. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is there any easy way to challenge this, other than Appeal to the TTAB? I’ve read TMEP 706 re new rejection after 1<sup>st</sup> OA and clear error, and my gut tells me a clear error fight likely wouldn’t be successful and that we’ll just
need to overcome this new rejection. But I’d love any advice if you’ve dealt with something similar.
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