[E-trademarks] Attorney Identity Theft

Sat Oct 26 18:27:18 UTC 2024

I assume the USPTO will allow me to bill them for an hour a day for
complying with this best practice.

On Sat, Oct 26, 2024 at 1:50 PM Pamela Chestek via E-trademarks <
e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:

> 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
> Chestek Legal
> 300 Fayetteville St.
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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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> *Laura Talley Geyer* | *Of Counsel*
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> *ND Galli Law LLC*
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> 1200 G Street, N.W., Ste 800
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> Washington, DC 20005
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> *From:* E-trademarks <e-trademarks-bounces at oppedahl-lists.com>
> <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>
> <e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com>
> *Cc:* Carl Oppedahl <carl at oppedahl.com> <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>
> <e-trademarks-bounces at oppedahl-lists.com> on behalf of Jeremy Green Eche
> via E-trademarks <e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com>
> <e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com>
> *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>
> <e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com>
> *Cc: *Jeremy Green Eche <jeremy at jpglegal.com> <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.
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> 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.
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>
> —
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> Jeremy
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> Jeremy Peter Green Eche
> Founder and Managing Attorney, JPG Legal
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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.
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> 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
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>
> Annette P. Heller
> Trademark/Copyright Attorney
> TM Law & Associates
> 400 Chesterfield Center Ste 400
> Chesterfield [St Louis] MO 63017
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> www.TrademarkAtty.com <http://www.trademarkatty.com/>
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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?
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>
>
> Maria
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> *Maria Eliseeva*
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> *Patentbar International*
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> *From:* E-trademarks <e-trademarks-bounces at oppedahl-lists.com>
> <e-trademarks-bounces at oppedahl-lists.com> *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> <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.
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> 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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> *Diane L. Gardner*
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