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

[Rick Bigelow]

Ask Alice.

On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM Charles B. Kramer via E-trademarks <
e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:

> 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)
>
> ===========================================
> Charles B. Kramer, Esq.
> ~ ATTORNEY ~
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-- 
Richard L. Bigelow
Registered Patent Attorney
Certified Patent Valuation Analyst
43 Nuangola Ave.
Mountaintop, PA  18707  USA
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