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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Introducing 99028710, the standard character mark </span>
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Mark Literal Elements: </div>
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Standard Character Claim:</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Yes. The mark consists of standard characters without claim to any particular font style, size, or color.</span></td>
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Mark Drawing Type:</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">4 - STANDARD CHARACTER MARK</span></td>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Bulgarian characters in this mark transliterate to BULGARICA and this has no meaning in a foreign language.</span></td>
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Based on this new application, I must conclude that the new Trademark Center electronic application system does NOT check that the characters submitted for a standard character mark actually occur on the USPTO's standard character list.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I fully recommend that you open the raw application on TSDR and view the 5 pages of the application. Then tell me the proper pronunciation of this standard character mark! My Bulgarian is
</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">more </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">than just
<i>a little bit rusty</i>. ;-}</span></div>
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Happy Presidents' Day Holiday,</div>
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Ken Boone</div>
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