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<p style="margin: 0.1rem 0; line-height: 1.0;" data-signature-line="true">If there is any association, even if very tenuous, with marijuana, cannabis or hemp the examiners are likely</p>
<p style="margin: 0.1rem 0; line-height: 1.0;" data-signature-line="true">to make that rejection. It is often easier to add that language, even if it make no sense for the particular</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.1rem 0; line-height: 1.0;">USPTO Reg. No. 40,346</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1f4e79; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;">The office action is requesting that we add the standard \u201c0.3 percent\u201d language to the identification of services, but that makes no sense. Services are not \u201cderived from hemp with a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) concentration of more than 0.3 percent\u2026\u201d because they\u2019re services, not goods.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1f4e79; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;">Anyone dealt with something similar? </span></p>
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