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<p class="MsoNormal">To avoid a fee, I think maybe we should insert a paragraph into the \u201cmiscellaneous\u201d section, something along these lines:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">\u201cKURU, as used in the mark, is intended to be a fanciful term, and not a word in any language. However, applicant has searched for possible unintended meanings in other languages and found the following:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Latvian: which (note; this is actually the translation that Google Translate comes up with when you have it detect the language).<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Japanese: come<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kongo: wait<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dinka: and<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Papua New Guinea: tremble or shake<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sanskrit: do<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In medical terminology, Kuru is also a form of prion disease.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">None of these meanings (or any other meanings in other languages that applicant has not discovered) are intended by applicant to describe its goods or services.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-8173637793206140623gmaildefault"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Further muddying things, "kuru" means "to come" in Japanese. Which should we list in the translation statement?</span></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Well, I\u2019m probably dating myself (and outing myself as a science and medicine geek) but when I got the first KURU shoes catalog, I burst into laughter and ran around showing it
to people asking what \u201cKuru\u201d meant to them. All doctors/most biological/zoological scientists and a lot of science followers older than 45 or so also burst into laughter or said \u201cwow\u201d and everyone else, nothing.
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<p class="MsoNormal">But I mean, nothing says \u201cgreat comfy shoes\u201d like a relatively recently-extinguished 100% fatal prion-folding-based transmissible spongiform encephalopathic (TSE) (brain-wasting)
disease caused by ritual funerary cannibalism among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea!
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks to public health efforts, the Fore people gave up funerary cannibalism by the late 60s I think but the last case was in 2005 b/c the incubation period is as long as 50 years.
We still have other TSEs about in humans and animals.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It\u2019s pretty well known in some circles because it led to two Nobel Prizes (related to the discovery of the prion as a new infective agent \u2013 the same sort of agent was involved in
nKJD or \u201cMad Cow\u201d disease) and, let\u2019s face it, had all the other things that make a disease truly memorable and interesting.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK559103/#:~:text=Kuru%20disease%20is%20an%20infectious,an%20end%20to%20this%20disease" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK559103/#:~:text=Kuru%20disease%20is%20an%20infectious,an%20end%20to%20this%20disease</a>.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I like this little 2023 summary because it uses great language like \u201cThe current data about the natural history and clinical progression of the disease,
<b><i>as well as its detrimental effects (death)</i></b>, and designing an\u2026\u201d<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yup, that\u2019s a pretty big \u201cdetrimental effect\u201d!
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<p class="MsoNormal">Anyway, that\u2019s what the word \u201ckuru\u201d means - \u201cto shake\u201d or \u201ctremble\u201d in the Fore language. I haven\u2019t checked yet the PTO records to see if the owner needed to state its meaning in
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<b>Cc:</b> Miriam Richter, Esq. <<a href="mailto:mrichter@richtertrademarks.com" target="_blank">mrichter@richtertrademarks.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [E-trademarks] USPTO Fees Federal Register Notice - Unpublished PDF Version</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">My question is what happens when the applicant is using the word in a way that is different from a way that translates to something else? Every time
I look for a translation I get more than one translation in more than one language. Sometimes they are widely divergent!</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">A really good example is often seen on the menu of high-end steakhouses is Kumamoto \u2013 a type of beef from a region in Japan but in Swahili it is a
really bad word!!! Every time I go out with a good friend from Kenya we have a good laugh about it.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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the initial application includes a translation or transliteration, the surcharge will not apply for later amendment of the translation or transliteration.</span></i><span class="m_-8173637793206140623m-3243985067305932179gmaildefault"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">"
Does that mean, then, that we should always be in the habit of checking the 'The mark has no meaning in a foreign language' box if we don't have a translation to provide? Would that qualify as having included a translation? </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> O<span class="m_-8173637793206140623m-3243985067305932179gmaildefault">r
would the PTO somehow wiggle out of it with the statement that "</span>The surcharge will apply if the translation or transliteration comprises or contains inappropriate material.<span class="m_-8173637793206140623m-3243985067305932179gmaildefault">" Not sure what exactly "inappropriate
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<p class="MsoNormal">\u2022 If the mark includes color, a statement naming the color(s) and describing where the color(s) appears on the mark, and a claim that the color(s) is a feature of the mark; <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">\u2022 If the mark includes non-English wording, an English translation of that wording; <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> The Office appears to be taking the position that getting the color statement or description of the mark "wrong" -- per the Examining Attorney's subjective opinion -- subjects
Applicant to the $100 <u>per-class</u> fee. The asserted 'remedy' is that Applicant can complain that the Office is not being consistent. Which, of course, is not actually the problem at hand. The non-standard text marks are, in general, different, and will
have different descriptions. So consistency is not the issue -- it's imposing unpredictable fees based on a difference of opinion. [Comment 36 below.]<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> And the Office does take the position that Applicant must search for, and provide, any possible (if remote / random / irrelevant) non-English meaning. This applies even if it's
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<p class="MsoNormal"> How many translations might there be? Who knows! Take the word 'casette' -- it translates from Italian as "little houses" -- which is the one you get if you tell Google Translate
"detect language. Same for Catalan. But if you happen to know it's also a word in Spanish, it's "cassette" (same for many languages). Or maybe if you search Romanian, it's "tapes." Or in Breton & Dari, it's "box." <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Comment 36: Commenters, including the SBA, expressed concern regarding the difficulty of anticipating whether the insufficient information fee [e.g. $100/class] will apply for
an applicant, given that many of the requirements are subjective to the examining attorney\u2019s opinions and discretion, rather than objective factual standards. Commenters included color claim, description of a mark, identification of form of applicant, and
translation of a mark as examples of subjective determinations where a fee could be imposed later in examination. Commenters suggested these questions will lead to accounting disputes, thus inhibiting the quality and timeliness of prosecution progress. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Response: The USPTO acknowledges the commenters\u2019 concerns and offers assurance that the agency strives to ensure consistent examination. An applicant may request that the USPTO
review situations where, in their opinion, the agency has acted inconsistently in its treatment of their pending application(s) or recent registration(s). Applicants also may submit a request for review when a substantive or procedural issue has been addressed
in a significantly different manner in different cases, subject to requirements on the Consistency Initiative page on the USPTO website at
<a href="https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/trademark-updates-and-announcements/consistencyinitiative" target="_blank">
https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/trademark-updates-and-announcements/consistencyinitiative</a>. If the applicant believes that the agency incorrectly imposed an insufficient information fee and has discussed the issue with the examining attorney, they may also
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Response: Requiring the fee is appropriate in the situation described in the comment because § 2.32(a)(9) requires an applicant to research a mark that is comprised of or includes
non-English wording to determine whether there is a transliteration or translation of the wording. If there is, and the applicant omits the translation or transliteration, the examining attorney will issue an Office action requiring the insufficient information
surcharge and submission of the translation and/or transliteration, as appropriate. If the initial application includes a translation or transliteration, the surcharge will not apply for later amendment of the translation or transliteration. The surcharge
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