[E-trademarks] A Growing Trademark Search Phenomenon: Null GS Entries

[Ken Boone]

My TESS strategy for identifying live trademarks without any active classes was forced into retirement with the retirement of TESS.

My best alternate so far: the trademark search LD:true NOT (GS:* SN:8900* SN:81*) retrieves live trademarks without GS text, ignoring the pesky 89-series and the annoying 81-series dead registrations that trademark search continues to retrieve as live registrations.  Today that search retrieves 405 marks, versus only 393 marks yesterday, only 377 marks Wednesday and only 140 marks on December 1st.  Anyone noticing a trend?

The table below summarizes the counts of those 405 live trademarks without GS entries by filing dates.

Date    Count   Date    Count   Date    Count   Date    Count   Date    Count
02/08/22        1       10/20/23        1       11/21/23        1       12/07/23        13      12/17/23        7
08/17/22        1       10/23/23        1       11/27/23        2       12/08/23        13      12/18/23        12
04/05/23        2       10/25/23        1       11/29/23        13      12/09/23        12      12/19/23        15
09/05/23        1       10/27/23        3       11/30/23        26      12/10/23        3       12/20/23        13
09/18/23        3       11/01/23        1       12/01/23        23      12/11/23        18      12/21/23        16
09/20/23        1       11/03/23        1       12/02/23        3       12/12/23        13      12/22/23        22
09/21/23        1       11/12/23        2       12/03/23        6       12/13/23        17      12/23/23        5
10/01/23        1       11/13/23        5       12/04/23        18      12/14/23        12      12/26/23        17
10/11/23        5       11/16/23        1       12/05/23        18      12/15/23        14      12/27/23        9
10/17/23        2       11/20/23        1       12/06/23        17      12/16/23        5       12/28/23        7

Only 4 of the 405 marks are over 4 months old, so the appearance of these void GS entries is primarily a recent phenomenon.  The magnitude of this phenomenon has grown significantly so far this month.  Let's hope that trend does not continue.

Happy Trademarking,
Ken Boone
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