[E-trademarks] Trademark Examination Vent: How does this even happen?

[Tim Ackermann]

Wow - 20 days to Approved!

On Thu, May 9, 2024, 10:07 Leesa N. Weiss via E-trademarks <
e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:

> This morning, one of the watch services with which one of my client’s
> trademarks is listed sent me a notice of a U.S. application published for
> opposition at the end of April. It’s a use-based application filed under
> Section 1(a) utilizing TEASPlus; the 23 goods identified within the single
> class do not fit neatly into one category. The specimen is definitely
> suspect: a print out from a questionable online website from which one of
> the products allegedly was purchased and depicts what appears to be a
> photograph of a product on which the subject trademark appears to be
> photoshopped *and misspelled*!
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> The TSDR file history is as follows (note the dates!):
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> As of this morning, the status dates for new applications being reached
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> Apart from having to file an opposition to which the applicant likely will
> not answer, is there an office or individual to whom one can complain at
> the PTO regarding these issues? My client’s mark and the published mark,
> both in the same class and identify a number of the same goods, differ by a
> single letter.
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> Vent over and, if you’ve read this far, thank you.
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> *Leesa N. WeissPartner*
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> Gaithersburg, MD 20878
> lweiss at esfip.com
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