[E-trademarks] Recent Registration Date Processing Change?

[Ken Boone]

I tried to do a quick check of registrations issued last Tuesday.

The search RD:20240430 retrieves 7,212 trademarks.  I assumed each would have a registration number.

The search RD:20240430 AND RN:* only retrieves 7,080 trademarks.  Same for the search RD:20240430 AND SA:registered.

Alternatively, the search RD:20240430 NOT RN:* retrieves 132 trademarks.  Same for the search RD:20240430 AND SA:review.  Same for the search RD:20240430 AND RG:supplemental.  The Trademark Search status LIVE PENDING is reported for these 132 trademarks, while the TSDR has Review prior to publication completed as the status. (Well, the few I checked.)

These unusual occurrences (registration date entries without corresponding registration numbers) got me looking for other such occurrences.  The search RD:[* TO 20240505] NOT RN:* retrieves 191 trademarks.  That is, for registration dates up to today, 191 trademarks have a registration date entry but do NOT include a registration number.  Conveniently, that's a small enough count to export all 191 trademarks, and I have summarized those 191 trademarks by registration date (all calendar year 2024) in the following table.

Reg. Date
Principal Register
Supplemental Register
Total
02/20/24
5
0
5
03/19/24
17
1
18
03/26/24
41
0
41
04/30/24
0
127
127
Grand Total
63
128
191

(Okay, something is wrong with my summary, as I only list 127 instead of 132 trademarks for 04/30/24.  Ooops.)

Is this an expected behavior - that the USPTO would load a registration date for a trademark record without a registration number?  Do you suppose this behavior is because the USPTO is maintaining a legacy system, Trademark Reporting And Monitoring (TRAM), as well as an updated one, and the issue will resolve when we retire TRAM?  Thoughts?

Wait.  I observed a similar phenomenon with the published for opposition date field.

The search PO:20240430 retrieves 10,864 trademarks.  I assumed all those trademarks were published for opposition last Tuesday.  Not so fast.  The search PO:20240430 AND SA:published only retrieves 10,734 trademarks.  Alternatively, the search PO:20240430 AND SA:review retrieves 108 trademarks, where TSDR has the status Review prior to publication completed for the trademarks I checked.  (Expanding the date range via the search PO:[* TO 20240430] AND SA:review retrieves 11,324 trademarks {all live} with published for opposition date entries that have passed and the term review in the SA - Status field, though since that field is NOT displayed on TM Search ...) Again, is this the behavior that you expected for the published for opposition field?  Thoughts?

Happy Trademarking,
Ken Boone
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