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<p>Yes and Ken Boone has been doing a variety of son-of-TESS
searches in recent months that are designed to try to sniff out
clusters of applications that sound similar to this kind of fact
pattern. He keeps finding various ways to craft a search and he
keeps finding whole tranches of applications that seem to be
stalled in one way or another.</p>
<p>Which raises the natural question -- why is there (apparently)
nobody at the Trademark Office monitoring this kind of thing and
doing whatever is needed to break logjams? If Ken can do a search
and with a few mouse clicks find 200 or 700 applications that are
stalled in a particular way, why is there no one in management at
the Trademark Office doing those searches and taking appropriate
corrective steps?<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/17/2024 8:07 AM, Kevin Grierson
via E-trademarks wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Side note to this\u2014it appears that the PTO
has a habit of just taking no action on suspicious
applications/filers until it figures out what to do with
them. Case in point: one of my partners has an application
suspended because of a prior pending application. That
application (and 7 others by the same applicant) were filed
roughly a year ago but no action has been taken on any of
them. The applicant has a real attorney\u2014at least, the
applications indicate they were filed by an attorney licensed
in NY, and this person is actually licensed there\u2014but that
attorney, despite being admitted to the bar only in 2021, has
filed over 4000 applications to date. There are no notes in
the files of the blocking application or its 7 companions, no
letter of protest or something else that would explain why the
PTO has just allowed these applications to sit even as they
otherwise seem to be getting pendency down a bit. Who knows
how long we\u2019ll have to wait until the PTO acts and the
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>From:</span></b><span>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:e-trademarks-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com"><e-trademarks-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com></a>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ken Boone via E-trademarks<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 16, 2024 11:59 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:E-Trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com">E-Trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Ken Boone <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:boondogles@hotmail.com"><boondogles@hotmail.com></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [E-trademarks] Application in Limbo</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>I have watched this discussion
from afar from the beginning. I hope the originator has
found a USPTO contact sympathetic to his concerns.
Meanwhile, ...</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>While the
<b>SA - Status</b> field on Trademark Search remains a
bit of a mystery (as the contents of that field are not
displayed but, from my experience, that contents
typically does NOT match the status description
displayed on TSDR, eliminating the option of an exact
match search of the TSDR status text on Trademark
Search), I see <b><u>314 pending trademarks</u></b> for
the search </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>SA:(review AND registration)
AND LD:true AND PO:* NOT (UD:[20240301 TO *] RN:*)</span></b><span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>suggesting that "</span><b><i><span>Review
prior to registration completed</span></i></b><span>"
(the TSDR status of the pending marks I checked for that
search) is yet another USPTO
</span><b><i><span>purgatory</span></i></b><b><span> </span></b><span>status
waiting complaints from the owner/attorney of record for
further action by the USPTO. As noted, that search
retrieves 314 pending trademarks today, where one of
those pending trademarks appears to be the trademark
inspiring this E-Trademarks discussion.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Curious? Well, the search</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>UD:[20241216 TO *] AND SN:(
86980509 87769203 88110411 88232431 88472833 88756971
88789436 88843007 90057103 90521117 90706772 90735034
90753596 90780559 90783862 90804195 90812917 90822910
90872681 90887866 90899852 90979928 90979981 90980019
90980045 97017090 97031122 97067424 97075031 97100429
97100437 97108107 97133734 97137059 97159370 97160078
97166550 97169530 97172164 97194679 97202189 97202581
97204163 97206673 97216415 97218545 97227930 97239893
97263899 97266596 97271806 97279594 97285054 97285443
97289940 97294861 97299134 97303038 97304571 97304640
97304695 97316079 97321190 97325909 97327750 97338754
97341522 97342520 97348696 97356771 97358299 97361426
97361961 97363476 97363758 97369815 97386931 97389621
97393946 97395592 97399431 97402951 97410853 97411172
97417084 97417244 97418367 97418827 97418968 97421337
97422075 97423470 97423925 97425704 97428007 97430039
97430177 97431687 97433033 97433384 97433610 97435882
97435885 97435887 97439860 97440288 97440961 97441810
97442082 97445663 97445895 97445914 97446008 97446915
97449093 97449241 97452225 97452830 97453898 97455358
97457296 97457310 97459217 97461387 97461774 97461813
97463830 97464424 97466649 97468157 97469702 97470510
97471790 97472046 97472762 97473121 97473126 97473455
97473806 97475236 97476499 97477634 97478434 97478804
97479892 97482317 97483222 97484155 97484745 97485821
97485888 97486981 97487000 97487076 97488718 97492675
97493254 97494136 97494327 97494677 97497742 97497811
97498751 97499591 97504893 97506283 97508050 97508331
97513145 97514678 97517217 97520019 97522458 97524493
97532374 97533562 97536877 97538131 97545861 97547585
97550339 97551105 97552181 97552507 97555716 97563084
97563785 97564370 97567223 97567275 97569636 97571001
97571528 97574414 97576865 97578526 97582885 97583668
97587224 97588457 97589517 97590814 97593789 97593813
97602378 97603996 97606851 97607043 97607449 97609686
97611688 97614143 97614486 97622350 97623330 97623621
97627875 97629363 97632909 97638216 97638744 97641065
97645582 97649729 97653796 97657114 97658325 97658718
97665237 97665737 97669596 97673064 97676247 97677722
97677723 97677972 97680887 97681034 97681812 97683921
97686016 97686034 97686042 97688786 97690981 97692017
97694176 97694187 97694329 97698302 97698720 97703312
97703799 97704709 97704744 97704748 97705299 97707847
97708023 97709958 97710979 97711987 97715336 97715760
97718094 97718124 97720233 97725467 97725702 97726345
97730452 97730989 97731785 97734811 97738294 97743863
97744657 97745072 97748750 97748808 97749894 97750468
97750888 97756079 97762025 97763749 97768284 97803208
97809049 97812131 97824948 97837456 97842773 97855387
97888992 97908782 97975421 97975827 97976089 97976149
97976178 97976770 97977096 97977309 97977312 97977359
97977399 97977448 97977467 98031355 98034012 98043532
98079031 98114018 ) </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>should retrieve any of those 314
pending trademarks for any future updates on USPTO
systems, so who (besides me) will be performing that
search daily to watch the future progress of those 314
pending <b><i>application in limbo</i></b> trademarks?
Well, those pending trademarks
<b>are </b>the responsibilities of the owners/attorneys
of record to monitor, so ... never mind. I'll probably
give up that daily search long before the year ends. So
it goes.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Happy Trademarking,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Ken Boone</span></p>
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about links in this message trail, so I converted the
message trail to text to (hopefully) remove any links.
Typically, I do NOT click on any links in postings for
this discussion group (that I hope the relevant links
will appear via an Internet search on a secure search
platform from the relevant clues provided) and hope you
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Sent: Monday, December 16, 2024
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>This happened to me also and I
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Subject: [E-trademarks]
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Friends ? We have an
application that appears to be stuck in some limbo
state. ?Review prior to registration? happened in
February, but still no registration. We?ve tried
reaching the examiner, but it may be that she is no
longer with the USPTO, and we?ve had no luck with the
assistance center. Do you have any suggestions?</span></p>
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