[E-trademarks] sending specimens separately

[Jeff Wendt]

And impatient, what-are- you bugging-me for, real clients!


Jeffrey L Wendt
The Wendt Firm PC
PO Box 26010
Austin TX 78755
281/703-4820
Wendtfirm.com
JLW at wendtfirm.com


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> On Nov 27, 2024, at 5:10 PM, Diane Gardner via E-trademarks <e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:
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> Do extra steps irk me? Yes. But that is not what's absurd about this.
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> Human error is real. If a practitioner has prepared an application and forwarded it to the applicant for signature "UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY," but the specimens are not included and they must be sent separately (and maybe they are sent incorrectly), WTH?  Often, I have lots of specimens from which to choose and it is entirely possible that I might accidentally send some that were not the ones that were attached to the submission.
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> What the applicant receives for signature should be, unmistakably, the entire application as a whole - including the specimens. Seriously - how HARD CAN THIS BE?!
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> It's as if the USPTO programmers (or maybe the USPTO in general) do not understand that what we are dealing with is, ya know...evidence, and law.
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> Kind regards,
> 
> Diane L. Gardner
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