<div dir="ltr"><div>Russell,</div><div><br></div><div>Do you have copies of what was filed, such as the USPTO email receipt which might show the signatures as filed?</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Michael Brown<br>Michael J Brown Law Office<div>354 Eisenhower Parkway</div><div>Plaza I, 2nd Floor, Suite 2025<div>Livingston, NJ 07039<br><div><a href="mailto:michaeljbrownlaw@gmail.com" target="_blank">michaeljbrownlaw@gmail.com</a></div><div><a href="mailto:michael@mjbrownlaw.com" target="_blank">michael@mjbrownlaw.com</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mjbrownlaw.com" target="_blank">www.mjbrownlaw.com</a> <br>+1 973-577-6300 fax +1 973-577-6301<br></div><div>Google Voice +1 973-637-0358</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 3:31\u202fPM Carl Oppedahl 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:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<p>did you read 37 CFR 1.8? What does it say about three question
marks being between the virgules?<br>
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Under the old TM system, I would sometimes see characters that
have been changed after the application is filed. For example,
sometimes information like an email address will be printed in
TSDR with characters that make no sense. I have had one
examiner advise me that they are aware that their system
sometimes changes characters on their end.</div>
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I just got four office actions related to two tm apps that when
filed, had typed e-signatures on the applications. What the
system produced was /???/ in the filing receipt. The examiner
now wants to charge $100 per class and treat the applications as
unsigned. </div>
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I was under the impression it did not matter what the applicant
typed between forward slashes as long as they typed something.
Is this correct? Any way to protest the $100 fees without
paying more money to the USPTO? Any chance I am going to be
successful in convincing them this is their system's error?</div>
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As an aside, I have been getting a lot of office actions that I
do not understand and they are all on foreign applications. </div>
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