<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Would I have to do the same thing with parachute (or veal, ballet, garage, cuisine, restaurant, silhouette) because it's French? English is the mother of all "borrowing" languages. Someone is being silly.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">To my chagrin (also French) I only speak English. So, if I know what you are saying, then it's probably English...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">db</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 10:34\u202fAM Laura Geyer via E-trademarks <<a href="mailto:e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com">e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg6289940752962265703">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Wait a minute -- it seems beyond objectionable to have to pay to translate something that is really close to \u201cespresso\u201d. Espresso is firmly a loan word in English, like \u201ckudos\u201d or \u201coctopus\u201d. In other words, espresso in English is \u201cespresso\u201d.
It doesn\u2019t matter that it also is that in Italian. Espresso has entered the vocabulary of *<b>many</b>* countries -if you throw it into Google translate for a bunch of languages, the translation of \u201cespresso\u201d is \u201cespresso\u201d or some other form of \u201cespresso\u201d.
You could just as well say it means \u201cespresso\u201d in about 40 languages. You could run it all day and find that espresso is espresso or something very close to it.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Paul Supnik via E-trademarks<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 17, 2025 1:18 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> For trademark practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek legal advice. <<a href="mailto:e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com" target="_blank">e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Paul Supnik <<a href="mailto:paul@supnik.com" target="_blank">paul@supnik.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [E-trademarks] Additional Processing Fee Question<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">I think that the Office needs to further update the software for responses to Office Actions. I suspect that they did not expect that some initial Office Actions might be issued so soon after the new forms
were changed to require these additional fees rather than the typical 8 to 9 delay we have been experiencing. My approach now is to simply respond and wait for a new Office Action again requesting payment of fees, despite the fact that this might result in
a Final Office Action.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> [E-trademarks] Additional Processing Fee Question<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="m_6289940752962265703MsoPlainText" style="text-indent:0.5in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">As to the insufficient information fee of $100 per class, does anyone have any experience with actually having to pay the fee on an application? We filed an
application for a mark something like ESPRESSO (but less generic) but did not include a translation for the mark. The Examiner issued an Office Action instructing us to pay the fee and provide a translation. We provided the translation but the response to
office action form does not include any way to pay the fee. When we spoke to the Examiner, he made it seem that the only thing needed was to change the application from TEAS Standard to TEAS Plus on the back end, and we would be able to pay through the Response
to Office Action form. But that does not appear to be true. When we spoke with the Examiner again, he admitted he hasn\u2019t seen the ROA form from our end in years, so he had no idea how we were supposed to pay the fee.
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<p class="m_6289940752962265703MsoPlainText" style="text-indent:0.5in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We contacted the TEAS Assistance Center. They thought our instructions to allow the Examiner to charge the fee to our deposit account would be sufficient, but
sent us to the Accounting Department to verify. In typical NMJ fashion, the Accounting Department said they don\u2019t deal with Office Action Responses. We contacted the TEAS support mailbox, which was unhelpful as well. Any suggestions would be appreciated.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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