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I don't believe it threatens it. I believe it is an administrative
error by the Office, which can't be challenged in a proceeding.* An
adversary could instead challenge whether the mark was in use, since
there was no specimen, but it sounds like the mark was in use so it
would be fruitless exercise.<br>
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*<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://propertyintangible.com/2015/10/never-underestimate-the-burden-of-proof/">https://propertyintangible.com/2015/10/never-underestimate-the-burden-of-proof/</a>
See the footnote listing Office errors that cannot be challenged. I
compiled this in 2015 and there may be more since then. But there
are a couple cases where the insufficiency of the specimen could not
be challenged, and one for a foreign registration not provided, so
between those two I think an altogether missing specimen would be
treated the same way.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/23/2024 9:28 AM, Welch, Kat via
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<p class="MsoNormal">Weird situation that I\u2019m wondering if
anyone else has seen. A client filed their own 1(a)
application about three years ago but didn\u2019t include a
specimen. Trademark Office issued an OA requesting evidence of
use, but then sent a notice of publication less than 24 hours
later. Application matured into a registration even though no
specimen was ever submitted. Does this threaten the client\u2019s
registration? What do we even do in this situation? Call the
USPTO? Wait for the Section 8 filing? Never heard of this
happening to anyone before. I assume it was an administrative
error but don\u2019t want client being knocked for it.
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