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There are also cases (I know of at least two) where there is skilled trademark counsel that inherited long lingering applications. Follow ups have been met with "well, we are examining the original attorney who filed the applications so these applications
are stuck in perpetual purgatory and we don't know what will happen to them and we don't even know when we will be able to tell you what will happen to them." (Of course, I have liberally paraphrased.)</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> E-trademarks <e-trademarks-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com> on behalf of Carl Oppedahl via E-trademarks <e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 25, 2025 4:00 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> For trademark practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek legal advice. <e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Carl Oppedahl <carl@oppedahl.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [E-trademarks] Yet Another TM Backlog - What If The EA Doesn't Examine?</font>
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<div class="x_moz-cite-prefix">On 2/24/2025 7:53 PM, Ken Boone via E-trademarks wrote:<br>
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<div class="x_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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