[E-trademarks] Fwd: Successfully clearing the trademark register using TMA proceedings

Fri Dec 13 19:20:47 UTC 2024

When you say "historically lax specimen review," do you mean the Code of
Federal Regulations?

Sincerely,

Ed Timberlake
*Board Certified Specialist in Trademark Law
<https://www.nclawspecialists.gov/for-the-public/find-a-board-certified-specialist/results/detail/?id=29473>*

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On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 1:20 PM Lindsey Corbin via E-trademarks <
e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:

> This is really a BS announcement on the part of the PTO - They really just
> cleared out long specifications that shouldn't have been approved in the
> first place, and were likely never in use because of the historically lax
> specimen review. Of course these specs weren't cleared until someone had to
> come along and spend the money to file the TMA action in the first
> place.....
>
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 11:14 AM Matt Schneller via E-trademarks <
> e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm going to guess there was an alt-f for ";" involved in generating this
>> number.
>>
>> Matt Schneller
>> Partner
>> TM TKO, LLC
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>>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 12:11 PM Janice Housey via E-trademarks <
>> e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I am sure it means individual listed items (but could even include
>>> "characters" in an id since that is the new standard).  Number of
>>> registrations cancelled/partially cancelled would be a more useful metric.
>>>
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>>> *Subject:* [E-trademarks] Fwd: Successfully clearing the trademark
>>> register using TMA proceedings
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>>> "cleared over 25,000 goods and services" - what does that mean? Not
>>> registrations, or they would have said. Classes? Individual items?
>>>
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>>> We’ve hit a huge milestone—the Trademark Modernization Act’s (TMA)
>>> expungement and reexamination proceedings have cleared over 25,000 goods
>>> and services from the trademark register. We couldn’t have done it without
>>> you. Your petitions helped us identify and clear unused goods and services
>>> that blocked other innovators from registering their trademarks.
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>>> trademark in commerce for all the goods and services in the registration.
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