[E-trademarks] Trademark Employee Exodus? No Evidence So Far

Thu Feb 13 20:26:02 UTC 2025

The court lifted its injunction just yesterday, and the administration gave employees until 7:20 pm EST last night to tender a resignation under the offer.  Seems to me that it may take some time to process the resignations—and IIRC employees need to keep working until their replacements are trained, which could be quite a while for PTO employees given the hiring freeze.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/12/judge-allows-trump-to-implement-fork-in-the-road-deadline-for-federal-workers-00203952

Curious if any stories have come from USPTO employees who tried to resign under the program.

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From: E-trademarks <e-trademarks-bounces at oppedahl-lists.com> On Behalf Of Ken Boone via E-trademarks
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Subject: [E-trademarks] Trademark Employee Exodus? No Evidence So Far

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Pardon me for reviving (briefly) an ugly topic, but ...

On 29 Jan, I exported from the USPTO's employee locator all the L offices (which were primarily the Trademark Law Offices). Today, I understand the Fork in the Road is closed - that federal employees can no longer accept the deferred retirement proposed by the new administration, so I repeated the export performed on 29 Jan.  Below is a summary of current L office employee counts.  Only a few changes are noted, but who knows what a similar check performed next week might show? (A positive change means an increase of employees; a negative change means a decrease of employees.  Protecting privacy, I'm not interested in checking actual names for changes.)

Good news so far, as I see only a net loss of 1 employee for all trademark L offices (that is, so far, there is no evidence of mass exits by the deferred retirement offer among the Trademark Law Offices, but this is an early look at the data).

2/13 Counts
Office

Office Description

Change
16
T/LL
TRADEMARK LAW LIBRARY
30
T/LO101
LAW OFFICE 101
15
T/LO102
LAW OFFICE 102
29
T/LO103
LAW OFFICE 103
27
T/LO104
LAW OFFICE 104
26
T/LO105
LAW OFFICE 105
1
29
T/LO106
LAW OFFICE 106
28
T/LO107
LAW OFFICE 107
29
T/LO108
LAW OFFICE 108
31
T/LO109
LAW OFFICE 109
29
T/LO110
LAW OFFICE 110
25
T/LO111
LAW OFFICE 111
29
T/LO112
LAW OFFICE 112
23
T/LO113
LAW OFFICE 113
25
T/LO114
LAW OFFICE 114
27
T/LO115
LAW OFFICE 115
-1
29
T/LO116
LAW OFFICE 116
27
T/LO117
LAW OFFICE 117
15
T/LO118
LAW OFFICE 118
15
T/LO119
LAW OFFICE 119
28
T/LO120
LAW OFFICE 120
26
T/LO121
LAW OFFICE 121
24
T/LO122
LAW OFFICE 122
27
T/LO123
LAW OFFICE 123
14
T/LO124
LAW OFFICE 124
29
T/LO125
LAW OFFICE 125
-1
30
T/LO126
LAW OFFICE 126
1
27
T/LO127
LAW OFFICE 127
30
T/LO128
LAW OFFICE 128
28
T/LO129
LAW OFFICE 129
17
T/LO130
LAW OFFICE 130
15
T/LO131
LAW OFFICE 131
14
T/LO132
LAW OFFICE 132
16
T/LO133
LAW OFFICE 133
2
T/LO300
LAW OFFICE 300
17
T/LO301
LAW OFFICE 301
16
T/LO302
LAW OFFICE 302
17
T/LO303
LAW OFFICE 303
17
T/LO304
LAW OFFICE 304
10
T/LO800
LAW OFFICE 800
13
T/LP
LEGAL POLICY OFFICE
-1

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%,
Ken Boone

PS - UDUPA VAISHALI is still shown as COMMISSIONER FOR PATENTS.

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