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

Fri Feb 21 17:00:33 UTC 2025

Today's report.  (The new QC search may look familiar.  Yes, I intentionally omitted the new БЪЛГАРИКА standard character mark.)

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From: Ken Boone <boondogles at hotmail.com>
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2025 10:55 AM
To: TMFeedback <tmfeedback at uspto.gov>
Subject: Some Quality Control Checks/Suggestions Using Trademark Search

Only the 10th search (typed drawings in the standard character era) shows significant progress since yesterday.

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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* )

66

79

-13
3

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

19

21

-2
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"

98

99

-1
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???"

2

17

-15
11

WD:( *²* *³* *•* *¹* *¼* *½* *¾* *™* *¦* *¯* *†* *‡* *ˆ*) AND LD:true AND MD:(TYPED STANDARD)

20

20

0

The new search (#11) identifies 20 live typed drawing or standard character marks with unexpected characters occurring in the wordmark entries. (Yes, I'm sure there are more irregularities among the live standard character marks - that this QC search is incomplete and can be improved.)  For your convenience, here is a list of those 20 typed drawings or standard character mark with unexpected characters in the wordmark entries.

#

SN

FD

Wordmark
1
79166932
09/30/14
®
PRESTA²
2
79235429
02/15/18
®
SEC³URE
3
79264585
03/04/19
®
STORE¯CHAIN
4
88751137
01/08/20
®
NB² NOTHING BUT BOURBON
5
79285188
01/30/20
®
VESTAMID E²X
6
79288581
01/30/20
®
E²X
7
79292893
07/03/20
®
P³ PULSE
8
79300503
11/11/20
®
CHAMP²
9
90515424
02/06/21
®
PERK²O
10
79309572
02/08/21
®
X²
11
90865200
08/04/21
®
CURIO NO¯MERY
12
97786933
02/08/23
®
KASTRA ELI?¯N
13
79366806
02/23/23
®
SB²
14
79366809
02/23/23
®
ULTRA-SB²
15
79386509
09/05/23
E²
16
79388132
12/19/23
BELIGHT³
17
79409085
01/19/24
A³-SHIELD
18
79400216
05/23/24
EI²
19
79401538
05/23/24
EMPOWERED INTELLIGENCE ²
20
79416052
11/28/24
PIËCH DUAL²DRIVE

You likely noticed that Madrid applications dominate this list.  Perhaps the software for Madrid applications could use further enhancements to check that all characters occurring in standard character marks comply with USPTO's standards for standard character marks?

Most of these trademarks have either the superscript ² or ³ characters in the wordmark, but those characters are NOT included on the USPTO's standard character list (https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/standard-character-set), plus section 807.04(b)    When Special Form Drawing Is Required of the TMEP states:

A special form drawing is required for marks that contain superscripts, subscripts, exponents, or other characters that are not in the USPTO’s standard character set.   In re AFG Indus. Inc., 17 USPQ2d 1162, 1164 (TTAB 1990) (requiring special form drawing for raised numeral).  See TMEP §807.03(b)<https://tmep.uspto.gov/RDMS/TMEP/current#/current/TMEP-800d1e1215.html> regarding the USPTO’s standard character set.

Sadly, for the occurrences of the superscript ² or ³ characters in the wordmark, many of the trademarks are already registered.  I'm guessing that complicates removal of the standard character claim and using the STYLIZED TEXT mark drawing code for these trademarks?  Maybe a Public Note could be added to TSDR for these registrations to admit that the standard characters claim was included in these registrations in error?

For #3, STORE¯CHAIN, the ¯ character is not included in the standard character list, but this trademark is registered, so maybe again a Public Note could be added to TSDR for these registrations to admit that the standard characters claim was included in these registrations in error?

For #11, CURIO NO¯MERY, the drawing shows Curio Nōmery, where ō is the standard character with decimal value 333 and is described as omacr - latin small letter o with macron.  Now that TRAM/TSDR can handle characters with decimal values over 255, I recommend manually correcting the wordmark to CURIO NŌMERY ASAP!

For #12, KASTRA ELI?¯N, the ?¯ sequence is particularly annoying (the unexpected ? and the ¯ invalid character for a standard character mark.  The drawing shows KĀSTRA ELIŌN and I recommend manually correcting the wordmark to KĀSTRA ELIŌN as TRAM/TSDR can now handle characters with decimal values over 255.

For #15 thru #20 with superscript ² or ³ characters in the wordmark entries, I recommend cancelling the standard character claims and converting the trademarks to stylized text ASAP to prevent these trademarks from becoming registrations with the standard character claim.

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

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