<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:TrademarkAssistanceCenter@uspto.gov">TrademarkAssistanceCenter@uspto.gov</a> seconded the suggestion of the Examiner in my client's suspended application, agreeing I should contact <a href="mailto:TMpolicy@USPTO.GOV">TMpolicy@USPTO.GOV</a> about the preexisting application on which no Examiner had been appointed in over three years. So I wrote to <a href="mailto:TMpolicy@USPTO.GOV">TMpolicy@USPTO.GOV</a> and it wrote back:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>Good afternoon, </div><div>Thank you for your question regarding assignment of an examining attorney for SN 90xxxxx, which is a third party application. USPTO employees may not discuss the merits of any particular application or registration with a third party. TMEP §1806. Moreover, third parties have no authority to request assignment of trademark applications. While we understand your frustration, we have experienced an unprecedented surge in new applications. With the surge in filings, we have a higher number of unexamined applications and it is taking longer to examine initial applications. </div><div>We appreciate your patience </div></blockquote><div dir="ltr"><br>I plan not to respond. But IMO:<br><br>1. I did not ask for an ex parte "discussion" of the merits of the application in which no Examiner was appointed. I was doing a public service by alerting the TM Office to the fact an application got lost.<br><br>2. I should "be patient"? The delay is OVER three years, during which 10,000s of later filed applications have already been examined and become registrations.<div><br></div><div>In sum, the TM Office's communications have been inconsistent, not believable, and not helpful.<br></div><div><br>
<b>====================================================<br>
Charles B. Kramer, Esq.<br>
<i>~ ATTORNEY ~ <br>
</i>Linkedin</b>: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/charleskramer">www.linkedin.com/in/charleskramer<br>
</a><b> Mobile</b>: +1 917-512-2721 (text, voice, voicemail)<br>
<b> Fax</b>: +1 347-493-3583<br>
<b> Email</b>: <a href="mailto:charles.b.kramer@gmail.com">charles.b.kramer@gmail.com</a><br>
<b> Mail</b>: 200 E. 10th Street, No. 816, New York, NY 10003<br><br>
<b>====================================================</b><br></div></div></div>