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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif">Has anyone else noticed that it is taking a long time for design codes to be assigned. I just got a design code email on an application I filed August 1, 2025.
It seems to me this used to happen within days or at least a week of filing. This had an effect on other applications I filed because I found with two other applications that, while the application was in TSDR, I could not prepopulate a Madrid application.
I sent emails to Trademark assistance and after I received the design code designation email, the Madrid would prepopulate. It is going to be an issue for Madrid applications if this is the standard practice now to wait over 6 months before issuing the design
code designations and prepopulation cannot occur until then. I know I can just fill in the whole Madrid application, but that is time consuming and can lead to errors that would not occur with pre-population.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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