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Trademark Search shows that only 2,151 new registrations were granted this week. </div>
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Below are new registration counts for the last 11 weeks, where the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">
counts for the last 2 weeks</span> are unusually low. I included the corresponding Wednesday pending application counts to highlight the impact of fewer new registrations on pendency. </div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); font-weight: 700;">1</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">RD:20250729 AND RN:*</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"> 2,151</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"> 931,820</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">2</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">RD:20250722 AND RN:*</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"> 2,266</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"> 926,089</span></div>
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RD:20250715 AND RN:*</div>
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7,375</div>
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921,299</div>
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RD:20250708 AND RN:*</div>
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7,290</div>
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921,704</div>
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RD:20250701 AND RN:*</div>
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7,503</div>
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923,196</div>
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RD:20250624 AND RN:*</div>
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7,467</div>
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925,427</div>
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RD:20250617 AND RN:*</div>
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7,197</div>
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925,847</div>
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RD:20250610 AND RN:*</div>
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7,858</div>
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925,572</div>
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RD:20250603 AND RN:*</div>
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7,825</div>
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926,217</div>
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RD:20250527 AND RN:*</div>
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7,792</div>
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926,213</div>
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RD:20250520 AND RN:*\u2002</div>
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8,133</div>
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With the smaller number of new registrations for the last 2 weeks, the count of pending applications has increased from 921,299 on Wednesday, July 16th to 931,820 today, an increase of over 10,000 pending applications in 2 weeks. </div>
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The graph below shows the counts of pending applications on Wednesdays for May through July. </div>
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Any guesses of why new registrations have dropped so significantly for the past two weeks?</div>
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Happy Trademarking!</div>
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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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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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<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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