[E-trademarks] When you're 10 feet tall

[Charles B. Kramer]

Dear TM colleagues,

I recall in my long ago Wall Street days a certain snootiness about DoJ antitrust attorneys -- heck, they mostly didn't even go to Yale! (Neither did I).  

I was never one to dis hardworking government employees, working in service of the public good. But lately I've gotten some very peculiar Refusals to register and other plain ol' errors:

 - a refusal based on the current application being identical to an existing registration.  BUT IT WASN'T IDENTICAL (it was a whole word different).  A formal response corrected the problem, but how exhausted did the Examiner need to be to make that mistake?

 - a refusal based on using an accommodation address.  BUT IT'S REAL OFFICE ADDRESS -- I was there!  I can give my own certification as to its genuineness.  And will something more be needed (a photograph of the Office door)?

 - a Notice of Allowance issued despite the fact a Statement of Use had been accepted.  A polite informal communication corrected the problem, but subject to republication and the delay that will incur.  (The Examiner did send me an email apologizing for that).

 - my ongoing battle to get an application canceled that was filed in 2021 (because it's a barrier to my client's later application).  So far, no Examiner has been appointed (although the application is now formally "suspended" pending a possible Order to Show cause related to a fake attorney being listed in the application).

I know we're living in -- let's just say unprecedented times.  But as we say in New York City, "whatup?"

 - Charles

PS...  "When you're 10 feet tall" (with apologies to a certain White Rabbit)

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Charles B. Kramer, Esq.
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