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font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" clear="none"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">400 Chesterfield Center Ste 400</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; 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<div dir="ltr">We use DocketTrak and it searches based on the attorney. You receive an email if a new record is added, so you can easily monitor for fraudulent applications. Having said that, I agree with Carl - non TM attorneys/paralegals would have no clue how to search their credentials.
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<p>Over the past couple of years I looked at several clusters of trademark filings where it turned out some lawyer's name had been appropriated. In each case that I looked at, the victim was a lawyer who had never touched a trademark file ever before in his or her life.</p>
<p>Those lawyers are not going to have a clue that it is somehow important to make a stop at the USPTO web site once a month to do a search for their own name in the trademark search system.</p>
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<div>Annette P. Heller<br clear="none">Trademark/Copyright Attorney<br clear="none">TM Law & Associates<br clear="none">400 Chesterfield Center Ste 400<br clear="none">Chesterfield [St Louis] MO 63017<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><a href="http://www.trademarkatty.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect">www.TrademarkAtty.com</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">314-469-2610 Fax 314-469-4850</div>
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In a message dated 10/25/2024 11:55:22 AM Central Daylight Time, <a href="mailto:e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect">e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com</a> writes:
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<p>This is absolutely terrible. What would be a good way to prevent such identity theft?</p>
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<p><strong><em>Maria Eliseeva</em></strong></p>
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<p><strong>From:</strong> E-trademarks <a href="mailto:e-trademarks-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect"><e-trademarks-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com></a> <strong>On Behalf Of </strong>Diane Gardner via E-trademarks<br clear="none"><strong>Sent:</strong> Friday, October 25, 2024 12:23 PM<br clear="none"><strong>To:</strong> <a href="mailto:e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect">e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com</a><br clear="none"><strong>Cc:</strong> Diane Gardner <a href="mailto:diane@mmip.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect"><diane@mmip.com></a><br clear="none"><strong>Subject:</strong> [E-trademarks] Attorney Identity Theft</p>
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<p>Today the ABA Journal Weekly Newsletter ran a story about Ana Belén Vinueza, a corporate attorney for Illumina (California) whose identity and credentials were stolen and used to file more than 2000 trademark applications.</p>
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<p>According to the article, female attorneys licensed in California currently run the highest risk of this type of identity misappropriation. The USPTO is aware of at least 30 such cases of similar identity theft for the purpose of filing new trademark applications.</p>
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