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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">This may already have been \u201casked and answered\u201d, but: </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">To avoid the additional $200 fee for \u201cfree form text\u201d (which previously was included in the $350 fee for \u201cStandard TEAS\u201d), must we advise our clients with International Registrations that regardless of the goods/services described in those registrations, they now must squeeze the round peg of their goods/services into the square holes of the USPTO ID Manual? Or would that render the US application invalid (and subject to a $100 \u201cinsufficiency fee!\u201d) because of the discrepancy between the original, international registration and the attempt to save that extra $200 per mark, per class? So effectively, every Section 44(d) and 44(e) application starts with $550 in filing fees?</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Arghh.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,</p><p class="MsoNormal">Mark</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Mark S. Kaufman</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Kaufman & Kahn, LLP</span><span lang="NL" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Email: <a href="mailto:kaufman@kaufmankahn.com"><span style="color:#0563c1">kaufman@kaufmankahn.com</span></a> </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><a href="http://www.kaufmankahn.com/"><span style="color:#0563c1">www.kaufmankahn.com</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">10 Grand Central</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">155 East 44<sup>th</sup> Street, 19<sup>th</sup> Floor</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">New York, NY 10017</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Mobile: +1 (917) 453-7807</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Tel.: (212) 293-5556, x 2</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><img border="0" width="371" height="51" style="width:3.8645in;height:.5312in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01DB675A.4AB4EBD0"><span style="mso-ligatures:none"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">This email is intended only for the party to whom it is addressed and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination or copying of this email is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, kindly notify us immediately, return the email to us, and destroy any electronic or other copies of the email (including any notification to us in your \u201cSent\u201d folder). Thank you in advance for your cooperation and courtesy.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>