[E-trademarks] Some Quality Control Checks/Suggestions Using Trademark Search

[Ken Boone]

FYI - Today's report.
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From: Ken Boone <boondogles at hotmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2025 7:44 AM
To: TMFeedback <tmfeedback at uspto.gov>
Subject: Some Quality Control Checks/Suggestions Using Trademark Search

I did not see any changes for QC search 1 thru 9 from yesterday's QC report.

I have added a new 10th QC search.

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QC Search

Today

Originally

Change
1

SN:( /<79000000-79399439>/ ) AND MD:unknown AND LD:true

457

449

8
2

FD:[* TO 20240708] AND MD:unknown AND LD:true NOT (SN:79* SN:89* )

110

79

31
3

(SN:( /<79000000-79399439>/ ) OR (FD:[* TO 20240708])) AND LD:true NOT ON:*

17

21

-4
4

(SN:( /<79000000-79399439>/ ) OR (FD:[* TO 20240708])) AND LD:true NOT (GS:* SN:89*)

23

24

-1
5

 LD:true NOT  FD:* COMMENT:"Live But No Filing Date - 98305614 97977848 97977833"

4

3

1
6

LR:true NOT LD:true      Comment:"Live Registrations But Actually Dead"

20

20

0
7

SN:( 75722562 79090344 79099220 79105611 79107274 79294728 79294737 79310411 79331990 79336276 79366512 79384354 79391101 85333307 86500939 88128956 88629495 90444281 90555410 90979979 97667505 97728652 97975969 98176859 98975063 ) AND LD:true AND WD:*?*

25

25

0
8

LD:true AND MD:(*1* *3* *4* *5* ) NOT ( WD:* FM:* )   COM:"Missing Wordmark"

99

99

0
9

DC:( 030116 )  AND DD:( "heads of cats" )  AND LD:true

5

5

0
10

LD:true AND MD:*1* AND FD:[20031102 TO *]   COM:"New Typed Drawings???"

17





The new search LD:true AND MD:*1* AND FD:[20031102 TO *] reveals 2 problems.

(1) From the TMEP:

807.03(i)    Typed Drawings

Prior to November 2, 2003, "standard character" drawings were known as "typed" drawings.  The mark on a typed drawing page had to be typed entirely in capital letters.  A typed drawing is the legal equivalent of a standard character drawing.

807.03    Standard Character Drawings

... Effective November 2, 2003, Trademark Rule 2.52, 37 C.F.R. §2.52,was amended to replace the term "typed" drawing with "standard character" drawing.  Applicants who seek to register a mark without any claim as to the manner of display must submit a standard character drawing that complies with the requirements of 37 C.F.R. §2.52(a). See TMEP §807.05(a) regarding standard character claims in electronic applications.

Clearly, from 2 November 2003 forward, the term typed drawing is no longer appropriate. Instead, the term standard character drawing is the appropriate term, yet QC search10 identifies 17 live trademarks with the typed drawing mark drawing code.

(2) Additionally, each of the drawings presented on Trademark Search for these 17 trademarks differs from the drawing presented on TSDR.  Below are some examples.

[cid:8014c7f5-f3b0-4703-a5d6-3e4f612475f7]

I recommend correcting the mark drawing codes of these 17 trademark records ASAP.  For most of these, the standard character drawing code is appropriate, but for 98591309 (pictured above), perhaps the stylized text mark drawing code would be more appropriate.

Hope this helps,
Ken Boone
USPTO IT Specialist (retired)

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