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<p>ETAS was shut down a month ago or so. Now the only option is to
use Assignment Center.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/21/2025 2:02 PM, Louis Levy via
E-trademarks wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Is anyone else unable to connect with
ETAS?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>Louis J. Levy | Attorney</span></b><b><span><br>
</span></b><b><span>Symbus Law Group PLLC</span></b><b><span><br>
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</span><span>I Street, NW, Suite 1150 \u2022 Washington, DC 20006</span><span><br>
</span><span>Direct: </span><span>
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moz-do-not-send="true"><span>@symbus.com</span></a></span></u><span> \u2022</span><span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>From:</span></b><span>
E-trademarks
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Laura Geyer via E-trademarks<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 21, 2025 1:18 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> For trademark practitioners. This is not for
laypersons to seek legal advice.
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com"><e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com></a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Laura Geyer <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lgeyer@ndgallilaw.com"><lgeyer@ndgallilaw.com></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [E-trademarks] no registration
certificates today?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It does not mean that. A lot of them will
effectively have to quit, which will mean that hundreds of new
examiners will need to be hired and trained. They\u2019ll have to
because many were hired specifically to work remotely, and
many are the \u201csecond\u201d income in their homes, meaning that the
primary earner is unlikely to be able to relocate or if in the
DC area, might suddenly have an unsustainable commute.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Also there\u2019s no room for them at the
moment, so the PTO will need to get a lot more office space
very quickly unless they intend to wait until they know how
many employees have no choice but to quit.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And I just heard from a number of relations
and friends that there is a broad hiring freeze, so that could
hamper hiring replacements.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So who knows?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>Laura Talley Geyer</span></b><span>
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E-trademarks <<a
href="mailto:e-trademarks-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">e-trademarks-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Paul Supnik via E-trademarks<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 21, 2025 1:04 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> For trademark practitioners. This is not for
laypersons to seek legal advice. <<a
href="mailto:e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Paul Supnik <<a
href="mailto:paul@supnik.com" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">paul@supnik.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [E-trademarks] no registration
certificates today?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>So does this mean that the
backlog of trademark applications will slip another 6
months or so when the remote Examining Attorneys will be
forced to move back to the DC area, forgoing the
opportunity to spend most of their time working
remotely? I suspect not everyone will be happy with
this and the Office will need to retrain a whole new
batch of Examining Attorneys.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>From:</span></b><span>
E-trademarks <<a
href="mailto:e-trademarks-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">e-trademarks-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com</a>>
on behalf of Laura A. Genovese via E-trademarks <<a
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 21, 2025 9:28 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> For trademark practitioners. This is not for
laypersons to seek legal advice. <<a
href="mailto:e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Laura A. Genovese <<a
href="mailto:lgenovese@kassgen.com"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">lgenovese@kassgen.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [E-trademarks] no registration
certificates today?</span> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Yes, and it has the new
signature.<br>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: E-trademarks <<a
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On Behalf Of Carl Oppedahl via E-trademarks<br>
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2025 12:23 PM<br>
To: for trademark practitioners <<a
href="mailto:e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com</a>><br>
Cc: Carl Oppedahl <<a
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moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">carl@oppedahl.com</a>><br>
Subject: [E-trademarks] no registration certificates
today?<br>
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Hello fellow trademark practitioners. See <a
href="https://blog.oppedahl.com/yes-she-must-be-running-the-uspto-now/"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">
https://blog.oppedahl.com/yes-she-must-be-running-the-uspto-now/</a> .
As far as I can see, somebody at the USPTO must have
yanked all of the trademark registration certificates
that were supposed to issue today, that bear Derrick
Brent's signature. And now maybe they are scrambling
to create and cryptographically sign new ones with the
signature of the new Acting Director.<br>
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Has anybody actually seen any registration certificate
yet today?<br>
<br>
Carl<br>
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