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By my checks on Trademark Search this morning, only 2,266 new registrations were granted this week. That's much lower than usual. </div>
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Below are new registration counts for the last 10 weeks.</div>
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<u>#\u2002</u>\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002 <u>Search\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002 </u> \u2002 <u>Count</u></div>
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1\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">RD:20250722 AND RN:*\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002 2266</span></div>
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2\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002RD:20250715 AND RN:*\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002 7375</div>
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3\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002RD:20250708 AND RN:*\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002 7290</div>
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4\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002RD:20250701 AND RN:*\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002 7503</div>
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5\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002RD:20250624 AND RN:*\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002 7467</div>
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6\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002RD:20250617 AND RN:*\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002 7197</div>
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7\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002RD:20250610 AND RN:*\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002 7858</div>
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8\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002RD:20250603 AND RN:*\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002 7829</div>
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9\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002RD:20250527 AND RN:*\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002 7792</div>
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10\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002RD:20250520 AND RN:*\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002 8133</div>
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Any guesses of why only<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"> 2,266</span> registrations were granted this week? </div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Another curiosity. The search </span><span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"><b>RD:20250715 AND RN:* AND RN:/<</b></span><span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><b>7869697</b></span><span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"><b>-9999999>/</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> retrieves
just one registration and indicates that registration </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">7869697</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> is the highest registration granted on July 15th. The similar search
</span><span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"><b>RD:20250722 AND RN:* AND RN:/<7869697-</b></span><span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192); background-color: rgb(128, 255, 128);"><b>7870260</b></span><span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"><b>>/</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> retrieves
just one registration and indicates that registration </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(128, 255, 128);">7870260</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> is the lowest registration granted on July 22nd. Notice the gap. Checking,
the search </span><span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"><b>RN:/<7869698-7870259>/</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> retrieves only one registration, namely registration
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 128, 255);">7870240
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(serial number 87984266), a registration on the Supplemental Register that was granted on February 5, 2019 (but it looks like some divisional activity is in progress). </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Why
would the USPTO largely skip over 500 registration numbers for the range 7869698 through 7870259, only using
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 128, 255);">7870240</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> for that registration number range?</span></div>
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And I couldn't help but notice that registration <span style="background-color: rgb(128, 255, 128);">
7870260</span>, the lowest registration number for July 22nd, has the following drawing.</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The wordmark for this <i>design with text </i>
registration is </span><span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"><b>ALIVER</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, but it sure looks like the last character of that wordmark is really the
</span><span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"><b>®</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> registration symbol. Clever application, or violation of the rule of not allowing the
</span><span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"><b>®</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> registration symbol in drawings?</span></div>
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Curiously,</div>
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Ken Boone</div>
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PS - There's yet another <i>box characters </i>standard character mark drawing, namely</div>
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<u><img style="width: auto; height: auto; max-width: 1435px; max-height: 100px; margin: 0px auto; box-sizing: border-box;" id="image_1" alt="previously viewed
Image for 99284311, select for more details" src="https://tmcms-docs.uspto.gov/cases/99284311/mark/large.png"></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">for the standard character mark </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"><b>\ubc31\ub144\ubaa9\ub828\uc5b4\ubb35</b></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">filed on July 15th. Yet another applicant failed to check the USPTO generated standard
character mark drawing. So it goes.</span></div>
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