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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Dear Listmates:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I probably missed something where this change was announced, but I was recently invited to view one of the most fiddly, pointless initial office actions I’ve ever seen (not my client!), signed by a “Trademark
Examining Law Clerk” and not an examining attorney. It was a refusal w/ very boilerplate cut-n-paste and included mistakes of law that do not apply to the covered situation and some stuff that was just weird.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">So is it now normal at the PTO for non-attorneys to examine applications and issue refusals that are pretty clearly “practice of law”? Can one request that an actual lawyer take a look at it before blowing
a lot of client money responding to a seriously shoddy OA?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Laura<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#174E86">Laura Talley Geyer</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333"> |
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#174E86">ND Galli Law LLC</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Tel: (202) 599-9019 (direct)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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