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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Excellent, Carl. I\u2019ve now included in my template for client emails what you\u2019ve been using (minus the reference to \u201csitting at home in their pajamas\u201d, which seems like an inimitable Carl Oppedahl touch).</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Thank you,<br>Mark</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> E-trademarks <<a href="mailto:e-trademarks-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com">e-trademarks-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Carl Oppedahl via E-trademarks<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 9, 2025 11:15 AM<br><b>To:</b> For trademark practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek legal advice. <<a href="mailto:e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com">e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> Carl Oppedahl <<a href="mailto:carl@oppedahl.com">carl@oppedahl.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [E-trademarks] scammers impersonating the PTO</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p>Thank you for posting.</p><p>What's sad of course is that just about everybody who happens upon this web page will be a person who just got scammed and is now clicking around on the Internet to try to figure out who will help them get their money back. And the web page will be no help whatsoever toward their wish.</p><p>The vanishingly rare sequence of events is:</p><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">would-be scam victim sees this web page,</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">would-be scam victim keeps the warning in mind thereafter,</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">scammer contacts would-be scam victim, and</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">would-be scam victim avoids getting scammed.</li></ul><p>I bet that this four-step sequence absolutely never actually happens in real life.</p><p>Here is what I wrote yesterday to a client:</p><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p>You can see the two TSDR links [that I provided for the two newly filed trademark applications]. I invite you to make a browser bookmark for each of those links. A first reason that I am telling you about the TSDR links is that this will permit you to check the status of each trademark application at any hour of the day or night.</p><p>But a second and more important reason that I am telling you about the TSDR links is that anybody sitting at home in their pajamas can click around and find these TSDR links. This means that scammers will try to scam you, with communications that look a little bit like real USPTO communications. They will look up your phone number on the web and call you up and try to scam you. Please do not fall for the scams. </p></blockquote><p>Again thank you for posting.</p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On 9/9/2025 8:59 AM, Michael Tobias via E-trademarks wrote:</p></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal">This consumer alert about scammers impersonating PTO employees was issued by the Federal Trade Commission this morning. </p><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2025/09/scammers-are-impersonating-united-states-patent-and-trademark-office?utm_source=govdelivery">https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2025/09/scammers-are-impersonating-united-states-patent-and-trademark-office?utm_source=govdelivery</a></p></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br><br></p></blockquote></div></body></html>