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<p>This inspired a blog article:Â
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/24/2024 12:25 PM, Kevin Grierson
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<p class="MsoNormal">Very odd. I could see, if they had simply
imported a list of countries, leaving Benelux and the EU off.Â
But Great Britain and all of the member nations of the UK?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I also note that Kosovo *<b>does</b>* have
a trademark office, but as it is not a member of the Paris
Convention or any other global trade or IP organization, it
should not be possible to use a registration there to obtain a
registration in the US (which is why, I assume, it is not
included in the list of countries available in TEAS). <br>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Carl Oppedahl via E-trademarks<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 24, 2024 1:50 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> For trademark practitioners. This is not for
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<b>Subject:</b> [E-trademarks] EUIPO and Benelux missing
from Trademark Center<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 7/24/2024 4:49 AM, Carl Oppedahl via
E-trademarks wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Second, when the time came to enter the
details of the 44e filing basis, so far as I could see it
is impossible to set forth that the filing basis is a
registration
<b><i>granted by the European Union Intellectual Property
Office</i></b>. So I was forced to go back to TEAS
since TEAS does recognize EUIPO as a selection for the 44e
office of earlier filing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>This is a sad repeat of a blunder made by the developers
of Patent Center. With Patent Center as released, it was
impossible to claim priority from a prior application
filed in EPO (or in any other regional patent office). It
was clear in the case of Patent Center that the developers
stupidly just clicked around on the Internet for some list
of "all of the countries in the world" and copied and
pasted that list into the line of code that generated the
drop-down list of would-be priority Offices. Of course
the developers of Patent Center, who promised that they
were going to replicate all of the functions and features
of EFS-Web, should have done a simple code review of that
part of EFS-Web and would have seen that the drop-down
list included some places
<b><i>that are not countries</i></b>. The European Patent
Office is not a country. But the developers of Patent
Center had no clue that the EPO is not a country, or that
a customer of the USPTO might need to claim priority from
the EPO.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>It took some weeks but eventually the developers of
Patent Center paid attention to our bug report from the
Patent Center listserv, and they fixed their mistake.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>So here, too, what has apparently happened is the
developers of Trademark Center stupidly just clicked
around on the Internet for some list of "all of the
countries in the world" and copied and pasted that list
into the line of code that generates the drop-down list of
would-be Offices for a 44e filing basis.  Of course the
developers of Trademark Center, who represent to us that
they are supposedly replicating all of the functions and
features of TEAS, should have done a simple code review of
that part of TEAS and would have seen that the drop-down
list included some places <b><i>that are not countries</i></b>.Â
The European Union Intellectual Property Office is not a
country. But the developers of Trademark Center have no
clue that the EUIPO is not a country, or that a customer
of the USPTO might need to list EUIPO as a 44e filing
office.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I carried out a line-by-line cross-check
of the two lists (TEAS and Trademark Center). Here are the
two lists of things that don't match.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Purported trademark offices that may be selected in TEAS,
but not in Trademark Center:<o:p></o:p></p>
<ol type="1" start="1">
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">
American Samoa<o:p></o:p></li>
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Benelux<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">
England<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">
European Community - CTM<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">
European Union Trademark - EUTM<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">
Great Britain<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">
Guam<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">
Johnston Atoll<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">
Navassa Island<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">
Northern Ireland<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">
Northern Mariana Islands<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">
Puerto Rico<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
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Scotland<o:p></o:p></li>
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US Virgin Islands<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
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Wake Island<o:p></o:p></li>
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Wales<o:p></o:p></li>
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<p>Purported trademark offices that may be selected in
Trademark Center, but not in TEAS:<o:p></o:p></p>
<ol type="1" start="1">
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
Aland Islands<o:p></o:p></li>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
Antarctica<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the (note that this is
not the same as "Congo")<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
French Southern Territories<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
Kosovo<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
New Caledonia<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
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Niue<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
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Norfolk Island<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
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Paracel Islands<o:p></o:p></li>
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Pitcairn<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
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Reunion<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
Saint Pierre and Miquelon<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
South Sudan<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
Svalbard and Jan Mayen<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
Tokelau<o:p></o:p></li>
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<p>As for the seventeen purported trademark offices that may
be selected in Trademark Center, but not in TEAS, some are
particularly baffling. Paracel Islands, for example, is
described in Wikipedia like this:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>The ownership of the [Paracel] islands remains hotly
contested. The People's Republic of China (PRC) on
mainland China, Vietnam, and the Republic of China (ROC)
on Taiwan all claim
<i>de jure</i> sovereignty, although the PRC has had <i>de
facto </i>control of the archipelago since the Battle
of the Paracel Islands in January 1974.
<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>I am pretty sure there is no trademark office operated by
the Paracel Islands.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I am absolutely sure there is no Antarctica trademark
office. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>The focus of this study of course, is to identify trademark
offices that ought to be selectable in Trademark Center but
are missing. This draws our attention to the sixteen
offices that can be selected in TEAS but cannot be selected
in Trademark Center. It is easy to pick out three regional
trademark offices that can be selected in TEAS but are
missing from Trademark Center:<o:p></o:p></p>
<ol type="1" start="1">
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
Benelux<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
European Community - CTM<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
European Union Trademark - EUTM<o:p></o:p></li>
</ol>
<p>The second one (CTM) needs to be on the list for purposes
of 44e but is probably not needed for 44d. (More than six
months have passed since the last time anybody filed a CTM
application.)<o:p></o:p></p>
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