[E-trademarks] [EXT] Questionable looking law firm listed as counsel of record

[Alex Butterman]

You can report this to the USPTO Office of Ethics. I don’t have an email or website link handy, but it might be on the USPTO page about trademark scams or the page for that office.

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From: E-trademarks <e-trademarks-bounces at oppedahl-lists.com> On Behalf Of Michael D. Steger via E-trademarks
Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2023 11:59 PM
To: Carl Oppedahl <E-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com>
Cc: Michael D. Steger <msteger at steger-law.com>
Subject: [EXT] [E-trademarks] Questionable looking law firm listed as counsel of record

I recently came across an application purportedly owned by multiple individuals who appear to be residing abroad (listed address is in Canada).  The application was purportedly filed by a California attorney (whose name is not listed with the California bar).  Three weeks after filing another attorney with the same "firm" substituted in, using a substitution of attorney form and stating "These are my Clients who hired me to be their attorney for all the applications they have filled , The Attorney before has no right to deal with these clients because I'm now their representative"

The website using the same domain as both attorneys' email addresses looks very scammy -- no attorneys listed, poor grammar and misspellings.

The new "attorney" is supposedly a member of the New York bar.  There is a New York attorney  with that name, but the attorney  is an associate at a blue chip Wall Street firm.

Is there anything that a concerned trademark attorney  can do about a situation like this?

Mike Steger

Law Offices of Michael D. Steger, PC
295 Madison Avenue, 22nd Floor
New York, NY  10017
(646) 517-0600

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