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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/24/2025 7:53 PM, Ken Boone via
E-trademarks wrote:<br>
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<div class="elementToProof">Well, I started reviewing the
prosecution histories of the older applications. Many of these
applications have been stagnant for years. Then again,
attorneys in this discussion group would be contacting the USPTO
frequently to get their applications moving forward, right?</div>
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<p>This is a fun question.</p>
<p>Keep in mind if a case had been filed by a <i>pro se</i> filer,
it is not beyond imagining that the filer might allow a long time
to pass without going back and checking on status.</p>
<p>And then imagining a case filed by some attorney who really ought
not to be doing it -- an attorney who has only filed two
applications in their career and one of them was ten years ago.
In an office where nobody else has ever filed a trademark
application, or maybe it is a solo practitioner. And docketing is
only carried out in a limited fashion. Such a trademark file
might not get looked at again until something shows up from the
Trademark Office.</p>
<p>Then we turn to trademark mills. Some of them are probably
actually pretty good about stuff like docketing. A few of them
might sort of give almost no attention to the case once the
up-front money has been collected.</p>
<p>But yes, the listserv members who do almost nothing all day
except trademark work, they are surely going to set sensible
dockets and are surely going to make inquiry when it makes sense.
In our office we would start to worry if 7-8 months had passed
since filing and no indication of progress. Having said that, in
the past year I think every case we filed did get acted upon by an
EA before 8 months had passed.<br>
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