<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Haven\u2019t seen the use of the word \u201cnormies\u201d, but when I noted something in the advertising world to my son who works for an ad agency, he wrote, \u201cI hadn\u2019t realized that muggles knew about that yet\u2026\u201d<div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Mark</div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mark S. 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How embarrassing\u2026</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">db</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 3:17\u202fPM Lara Pearson via E-trademarks <<a href="mailto:e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com">e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="auto">Phew! And, thank you! <div><br></div><div><br><div>Due to the high visibility of the poster on LinkedIn, this was one of those moments where I thought I'd somehow been mistaken for 25 years. </div><div><br></div><div>I appreciate the quick sanity check, Charles!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Lara Pearson, Esq.</div><div>Law Office of Lara Pearson Ltd, PBC & Brand Geek</div><div>775.833.1600</div><div>Calendly.com/BrandGeek (let's meet)</div><div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Creative typoing by iPhone</span></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Dec 16, 2024, at 6:10\u202fPM, Charles Guarino <<a href="mailto:cpguarino9@gmail.com" target="_blank">cpguarino9@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">\ufeff</div></blockquote></div></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><div><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">That is an inaccurate statement. In the United States, the TM/SM designations may be used to denote the claim of common law rights in a mark. No pending application is required.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 6:02\u202fPM Lara Pearson via E-trademarks <<a href="mailto:e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com" target="_blank">e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">Happy work week, list friends:<br>
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A US trademark attorney posted on LinkedIn today that use of TM/SM is reserved for those with pending apps. I don't believe this is accurate (and neither does ChatGPT \U0001f602), but I wanted to double check with the folks in this group, in case I've been missing something all these years.<br>
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Lara Pearson, Esq.<br>
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