[E-trademarks] Attorney Identity Theft
Pamela Chestek
pamela at chesteklegal.com
Sat Oct 26 17:49:09 UTC 2024
You don't do that? And every state and federal docket in the country,
and any administrative board, in case someone is impersonating you there
too? Oh, and how about patents, you mean you don't check those too? And
state trademark registries?
Pam
Pamela S. Chestek
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On 10/26/2024 1:37 PM, Laura Geyer via E-trademarks wrote:
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> EVERY SIX HOURS????
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> *From:*E-trademarks <e-trademarks-bounces at oppedahl-lists.com> *On
> Behalf Of *Carl Oppedahl via E-trademarks
> *Sent:* Saturday, October 26, 2024 1:14 PM
> *To:* For trademark practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek
> legal advice. <e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com>
> *Cc:* Carl Oppedahl <carl at oppedahl.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [E-trademarks] Attorney Identity Theft
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> Given that almost all of this risk comes from poor design of USPTO
> systems, I think the stakeholder that needs to comply with a higher
> standard of care is the USPTO.
>
> On 10/26/2024 8:52 AM, Emil Ali via E-trademarks wrote:
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> In a recent OED case of mine, OED suggested that attorneys have a
> responsibility to search their own name every six hours because
> there are actors that will file an application using the name and
> credentials of another, then immediately file a withdrawal.
>
> Needless to say, I don’t believe that is the standard of care
> required.
>
> *Emil J. Ali*
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> *From: *E-trademarks <e-trademarks-bounces at oppedahl-lists.com>
> <mailto:e-trademarks-bounces at oppedahl-lists.com> on behalf of
> Jeremy Green Eche via E-trademarks
> <e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com>
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> *Date: *Friday, October 25, 2024 at 6:40 PM
> *To: *For trademark practitioners. This is not for laypersons to
> seek legal advice. <e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com>
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> *Cc: *Jeremy Green Eche <jeremy at jpglegal.com>
> <mailto:jeremy at jpglegal.com>
> *Subject: *Re: [E-trademarks] Attorney Identity Theft
>
> Dockettrak tracks your trademarks by correspondent email address,
> so that wouldn't tell you if somebody was filing trademarks in
> your name using a different email address.
>
> I don't blame non-TM attorneys for not checking the database
> regularly. There are many different settings in which people might
> pretend to be you and you can't monitor all of them.
>
>
> —
>
> Jeremy
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> Jeremy Peter Green Eche
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> On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 6:08 PM Lindsey Corbin via E-trademarks
> <e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:
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> We use DocketTrak and it searches based on the attorney. You
> receive an email if a new record is added, so you can easily
> monitor for fraudulent applications. Having said that, I
> agree with Carl - non TM attorneys/paralegals would have no
> clue how to search their credentials.
>
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 3:01 PM Carl Oppedahl via E-trademarks
> <e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:
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> Over the past couple of years I looked at several clusters
> of trademark filings where it turned out some lawyer's
> name had been appropriated. In each case that I looked
> at, the victim was a lawyer who had never touched a
> trademark file ever before in his or her life.
>
> Those lawyers are not going to have a clue that it is
> somehow important to make a stop at the USPTO web site
> once a month to do a search for their own name in the
> trademark search system.
>
> On 10/25/2024 3:43 PM, Annette Heller via E-trademarks wrote:
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> To monitor your applications on a regular basis by
> doing a search on your name and see what comes up. I
> do a search on a monthly basis and have a follow up to
> remind me.
>
> Annette
>
> Annette P. Heller
> Trademark/Copyright Attorney
> TM Law & Associates
> 400 Chesterfield Center Ste 400
> Chesterfield [St Louis] MO 63017
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> In a message dated 10/25/2024 11:55:22 AM Central
> Daylight Time, e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com writes:
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> This is absolutely terrible. What would be a good
> way to prevent such identity theft?
>
> Maria
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> *From:* E-trademarks
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> *On Behalf Of *Diane Gardner via E-trademarks
> *Sent:* Friday, October 25, 2024 12:23 PM
> *To:* e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com
> *Cc:* Diane Gardner <diane at mmip.com>
> <mailto:diane at mmip.com>
> *Subject:* [E-trademarks] Attorney Identity Theft
>
> Today the ABA Journal Weekly Newsletter ran a
> story about Ana Belén Vinueza, a corporate
> attorney for Illumina (California) whose identity
> and credentials were stolen and used to file more
> than 2000 trademark applications.
>
> According to the article, female attorneys
> licensed in California currently run the highest
> risk of this type of identity misappropriation.
> The USPTO is aware of at least 30 such cases of
> similar identity theft for the purpose of filing
> new trademark applications.
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> Kind regards,
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