<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Recent EU apparent law firm, reminding my US client of an UK renewal already filed, and granated Jan 2024.<div>Perhaps the aggresssive legal \u201cprofessional\u201d was too rushed to remember the US split from EU.</div><div>Daniel Kegan</div><div>Kennett SQ PA<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Oct 9, 2024, at 4:31\u202fPM, Janet Satterthwaite via E-trademarks <e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:</div><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I am being plagued with trolling emails from IP lawyers all over Europe offering to help me with office actions for EU applications.</div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I do not recall it being this bad before.</div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Has anyone else noticed an upturn in this behavior lately?</div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Janet</div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div id="Signature" class="elementToProof" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(102, 102, 153);"><b>Janet F. Satterthwaite</b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(128, 128, 128);">|</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Partner/ Chair, Trademark Practice|Potomac Law Group, PLLC</span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; background-color: white; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(124, 134, 154); background-color: white;">1717 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 1025 </span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; background-color: white; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(124, 134, 154); background-color: white;">Washington, D.C. 20006</span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; background-color: white; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(124, 134, 154); background-color: white;">202-486-1578</span></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(128, 128, 128);"><a href="mailto:jsatterthwaite@potomaclaw.com" style="margin: 0px;">jsatterthwaite@potomaclaw.com</a>|<a href="https://www.potomaclaw.com/" title="https://www.potomaclaw.com" style="margin: 0px;">www.potomaclaw.com</a></span><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(128, 128, 128);"><br></span></div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.potomaclaw.com/professionals-janet-f-satterthwaite">https://www.potomaclaw.com/professionals-janet-f-satterthwaite</a></font><font face="Tahoma" size="2"> </font></div></span></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>