[E-trademarks] Unexpected Question Mark Occurrence - 70025285 - SOCI?T?

[Ken Boone]

70025285 - This older registration was among the trademarks updated on TM Search this morning.

The Search Results screen shows the mark as

[cid:1ea63664-7944-4880-956b-f32b0547a8ba]

Isn't that drawing displayed convincing that the two ? question mark characters in the mark are intended as part of the mark?

I toggled to the summary page anyway.  A partial copy/paste follows (highlighting mine).

Created
2024-05-09 05:51
Trademark
No image for typed drawing
Wordmark
SOCI?T?
Serial number
70025285
Status
LIVEREGISTERED
Goods and services

  *   US 046: ROQUEFORT CHEESE.

Register
PRINCIPAL
Dates

Filing date
1894-07-28
Registration date
1894-10-02
Hmmm.  No drawing displayed on the TM Search summary screen.  Better check TSDR.

[cid:71b7d723-8f95-4b68-b8d6-34075ee0ca3c]

So TSDR displays a drawing (SOCIÉTÉ), but the word mark (SOCI?T?) doesn't match that TSDR drawing.  As you likely guessed, a

Jan. 17, 2024
PR-Section 8 and 9<https://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn70025285&docId=S8920240117135703&linkId=3>

document was accepted yesterday, corrupting the word mark SOCIÉTÉ to SOCI?T?.  (The Oct. 02, 2023 USPTO COURTESY REMINDER shows SOCIÉTÉ was the word mark at that date.)

Our standard character struggles continue.

Happy Trademarking,
Ken Boone
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