[E-trademarks] Owner Email for TEAS (follow up to Cancellation of registration without knowledge...)

[Erik Pelton]

My response would be “none of the above” – use docketing software that will pick up and any status update post-registration (while continuing to use applicant/registrant’s email address for applicant/registrant contact information to comply with USPTO rules).

Erik Pelton

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Subject: [E-trademarks] Owner Email for TEAS (follow up to Cancellation of registration without knowledge...)

Hello,

A recent member posted how a registration was cancelled due to a default at the TTAB.  The attorney never received a copy of the notice to cancel because the TTAB only emails it to the owner email. To prevent this from happening to your clients, what do you do? 

I think these are the options: 
1. Use an owner email and cross your fingers;
2. Convince owner to use a general email like mailto:info at client.com or mailto:legal at client.com and have some greater confidence that email will reach someone.
3. Use a law firm email like mailto:TMDocket2 at lawfirm.com that goes to a docketing department or mailto:attorney2 at lawfirm.com if you don't have a docketing department.

What are most folks doing these days? I created a poll below in Google forms if anyone wants to use it. First form created in 3 minutes, so I don't know if it will work or not. I configured it to not collect emails and share the results. 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScSV8ZsmoiFbh11fLqqpiuaPz7Dfipx5Lq8VE3zNREaPyTzBg/viewform?usp=header