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<p>Thank you Ken for posting. Several things about this situation
at the Trademark Office sadden me.</p>
<ul>
<li>A first thing is, this is the sort of thing computers are
supposed to be good at. Yes, if some suggested change at the
Trademark Office were to call for hiring new staff, I could
imagine management doing foot-dragging. But somebody at the
Trademark Office could just set this up as a cron job and it
could generate the report periodically in an automatic way.
Indeed I bet in a couple of hours I could craft some PHP script
that would do this in an automatic recurring way.<br>
</li>
<li>A second thing is, why does it need external inputs for this
to get addressed at the Trademark Office. I would have thought
that somebody in management would have caught on years ago that
this needs to get paid attention to. Every one of these cases,
when it does finally reach the desk of an EA, will make lots of
extra work for that EA (assuming the EA is alert enough to pay
attention). And in the (sorry, might happen) category of an EA
failing to notice the problem, the result might well be a grant
of a registration with mistakes in it.</li>
<li>A third thing is, any time an EA examines a newly filed case,
the examination necessarily requires a search of Office
records. But each of these cases has defects that might lead to
its failing to turn up in a search of Office records, depending
on what is being searched for. This, too, can lead to cases
getting registered that ought never to have gotten registered.</li>
</ul>
<p>I think probably anybody who looks at this situation would likely
be sad for the same three reasons. I realize I am just stating
the obvious here.<br>
</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/21/2025 10:00 AM, Ken Boone via
E-trademarks wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:SN6PR14MB2237A5AA83F6A94A84162429D5C72@SN6PR14MB2237.namprd14.prod.outlook.com">
<div class="elementToProof">
Today's report. (The new QC search may look familiar. Yes, I
intentionally omitted the new
<b>\u0411\u042a\u041b\u0413\u0410\u0420\u0418\u041a\u0410 </b>standard character mark.)</div>
<div class="elementToProof">
<br>
</div>
<hr>
<div dir="ltr" id="divRplyFwdMsg"><span><b>From:</b> Ken Boone
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:boondogles@hotmail.com"><boondogles@hotmail.com></a><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 21, 2025 10:55 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> TMFeedback <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tmfeedback@uspto.gov"><tmfeedback@uspto.gov></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Some Quality Control Checks/Suggestions Using
Trademark Search</span>
<div> </div>
</div>
<div>
Only the 10th search (typed drawings in the standard character
era) shows significant progress since yesterday. </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<table id="x_table_0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
#</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
<span>QC Search</span></div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
<span>Today</span></div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
<span> </span></div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
<span>Originally</span></div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
<span> </span></div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
<span>Change</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
1</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
SN:( /<79000000-79399439>/ ) AND MD:unknown AND
LD:true</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
457</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
449</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
8</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
2</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
FD:[* TO 20240708] AND MD:unknown AND LD:true NOT
(SN:79* SN:89* )</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
66</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
79</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
-13</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
3</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
(SN:( /<79000000-79399439>/ ) OR (FD:[* TO
20240708])) AND LD:true NOT ON:*</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
19</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
21</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
-2</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
4</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
(SN:( /<79000000-79399439>/ ) OR (FD:[* TO
20240708])) AND LD:true NOT (GS:* SN:89*)</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
23</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
24</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
-1</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
5</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
LD:true NOT FD:* COMMENT:"Live But No Filing Date -
98305614 97977848 97977833"</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
4</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
3</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
1</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
6</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
LR:true NOT LD:true Comment:"Live Registrations But
Actually Dead"</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
20</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
20</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
0</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
7</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
SN:( 75722562 79090344 79099220 79105611 79107274
79294728 79294737 79310411 79331990 79336276 79366512
79384354 79391101 85333307 86500939 88128956 88629495
90444281 90555410 90979979 97667505 97728652 97975969
98176859 98975063 ) AND LD:true AND WD:*?*</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
25</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
25</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
0</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
8</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
LD:true AND MD:(*1* *3* *4* *5* ) NOT ( WD:* FM:* )
COM:"Missing Wordmark"</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
98</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
99</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
-1</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
9</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
DC:( 030116 ) AND DD:( "heads of cats" ) AND LD:true</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
5</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
5</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
0</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
10</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
LD:true AND MD:*1* AND FD:[20031102 TO *] COM:"New
Typed Drawings???"</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
2</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
17</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
-15</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
11</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
WD:( *²* *³* *\u2022* *¹* *¼* *½* *¾* *\u2122* *¦* *¯* *\u2020* *\u2021*
*\u02c6*) AND LD:true AND MD:(TYPED STANDARD)</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
20</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
20</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
0</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>
The new search (#11) identifies 20 live typed drawing or
standard character marks with unexpected characters occurring in
the wordmark entries. (Yes, I'm sure there are more
irregularities among the live standard character marks - that
this QC search is incomplete and can be improved.) For your
convenience, here is a list of those 20 typed drawings or
standard character mark with unexpected characters in the
wordmark entries.</div>
<div>
<br>
</div>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
<span>#</span></div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
<span> </span></div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
<span>SN</span></div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
<span> </span></div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
<span>FD</span></div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
<span> </span></div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
<span> </span></div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
<span> </span></div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
<span>Wordmark</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
1</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
79166932</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
09/30/14</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
®</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
PRESTA<span>²</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
2</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
79235429</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
02/15/18</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
®</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
SEC<span>³</span>URE</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
3</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
79264585</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
03/04/19</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
®</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
STORE<span>¯</span>CHAIN</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
4</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
88751137</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
01/08/20</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
®</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
NB<span>²</span> NOTHING BUT BOURBON</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
5</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
79285188</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
01/30/20</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
®</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
VESTAMID E<span>²</span>X</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
6</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
79288581</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
01/30/20</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
®</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
E<span>²</span>X</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
7</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
79292893</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
07/03/20</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
®</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
P<span>³</span> PULSE</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
8</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
79300503</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
11/11/20</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
®</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
CHAMP<span>²</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
9</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
90515424</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
02/06/21</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
®</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
PERK<span>²</span>O</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
10</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
79309572</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
02/08/21</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
®</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
X<span>²</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
11</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
90865200</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
08/04/21</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
®</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
CURIO NO<span>¯</span>MERY</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
12</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
97786933</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
02/08/23</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
®</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
KASTRA ELI<span>?¯</span>N</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
13</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
79366806</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
02/23/23</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
®</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
SB<span>²</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
14</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
79366809</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
02/23/23</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
®</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
ULTRA-SB<span>²</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
15</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
79386509</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
09/05/23</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
E<span>²</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
16</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
79388132</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
12/19/23</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
BELIGHT<span>³</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
17</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
79409085</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
01/19/24</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
A<span>³</span>-SHIELD</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
18</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
79400216</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
05/23/24</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
EI<span>²</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
19</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
79401538</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
05/23/24</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
EMPOWERED INTELLIGENCE <span>
²</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
20</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
79416052</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
11/28/24</div>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<br>
</td>
<td>
<div>
PIËCH DUAL<span>²</span>DRIVE</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<div>
<br>
</div>
<div>
You likely noticed that <b>Madrid applications dominate this
list</b>. Perhaps the software for Madrid applications could
use further enhancements to check that all characters occurring
in standard character marks
<b><u>comply with USPTO's standards for standard character
marks?</u></b></div>
<div>
<br>
</div>
<div>
Most of these trademarks have either the superscript ² or ³
characters in the wordmark, but those characters are NOT
included on the USPTO's standard character list (<a
href="https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/standard-character-set"
id="OWA1adac187-7a4f-4292-831f-143636aede74"
class="OWAAutoLink moz-txt-link-freetext"
data-auth="NotApplicable" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/standard-character-set</a>),
plus section <span><b>807.04(b) When Special Form Drawing Is
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A special form drawing is required for marks that contain
superscripts, subscripts, exponents, or other characters that
are not in the USPTO\u2019s standard character set.
<i>In re AFG Indus. Inc.</i>, 17 USPQ2d 1162, 1164 (TTAB 1990)
(requiring special form drawing for raised numeral). See
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href="https://tmep.uspto.gov/RDMS/TMEP/current#/current/TMEP-800d1e1215.html"
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USPTO\u2019s standard character set.</div>
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Sadly, for the occurrences of the superscript ² or ³ characters
in the wordmark, many of the trademarks are already registered.
I'm guessing that complicates removal of the standard character
claim and using the
<b>STYLIZED TEXT</b> mark drawing code for these trademarks?
Maybe a <b>Public Note</b> could be added to TSDR for these
registrations to admit that the standard characters claim was
included in these registrations in error?</div>
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For #3, STORE¯CHAIN, the ¯ character is not included in the
standard character list, but this trademark is registered, so
maybe again a
<b>Public Note</b> could be added to TSDR for these
registrations to admit that the standard characters claim was
included in these registrations in error?</div>
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<div><span>For #11, CURIO NO¯MERY, the drawing shows
</span><span><b>Curio N\u014dmery</b></span><span>, where
</span><span><b>\u014d</b></span><span>\u2002is the standard character
with decimal value</span><span><b> 333</b></span><span> and is
described as </span><span><b>omacr - latin small letter o
with macron</b></span><span>. Now that TRAM/TSDR can handle
characters with decimal values over 255, I recommend manually
correcting the wordmark to </span><span><b>CURIO N\u014cMERY</b></span><span> ASAP!</span></div>
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<div><span>For #12, KASTRA ELI</span><span><b>?¯</b></span><span>N,
the </span><span><b>?¯</b></span><span> sequence is
particularly annoying (the unexpected
</span><span><b>?</b></span><span> and the
</span><span><b>¯</b></span><span> invalid character for a
standard character mark. The drawing shows
</span><span><b>K\u0100STRA ELI\u014cN</b></span><span> and I recommend
manually correcting the wordmark to
<b>K\u0100STRA ELI\u014cN</b> as TRAM/TSDR can now handle characters
with decimal values over 255.</span></div>
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For #15 thru #20 with superscript ² or ³ characters in the
wordmark entries, I recommend cancelling the standard character
claims and converting the trademarks to
<b>stylized text</b> ASAP to prevent these trademarks from
becoming registrations with the standard character claim.</div>
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Ken Boone</div>
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USPTO IT Specialist (retired)</div>
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