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

[Robert Reynolds]

Dollars to donuts, USPTO error.

Maybe the “forward this to the examiner and note that it’s clearly nonsense” and the “let’s move this upstanding application forward, I like the cut of its jib” boxes are right beside each other.

That, or this is a picture of the applicant.

[When Obi Wan Kenobi says "These are not the droids you are looking for" is  that happening inside the stormtrooper's head? Otherwise why wouldn't the  other stormtrooper be suspicious that his buddy]

Happy Thursday.

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From: E-trademarks <e-trademarks-bounces at oppedahl-lists.com> On Behalf Of Tim Ackermann via E-trademarks
Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2024 10:10 AM
To: For trademark practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek legal advice. <e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com>
Cc: Tim Ackermann <tim at ackermannlaw.com>
Subject: Re: [E-trademarks] Trademark Examination Vent: How does this even happen?

Wow - 20 days to Approved!

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

The TSDR file history is as follows (note the dates!):

[cid:image001.png at 01DAA1FE.660464A0]

As of this morning, the status dates for new applications being reached for examination reads:

[cid:image002.png at 01DAA1FF.131E3490]
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.

Vent over and, if you’ve read this far, thank you.

Leesa





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