[E-trademarks] Delay in Design Code Assignment

[Carl Oppedahl]

Thank you again Scott for posting.  I'd be grateful if you could 
elaborate on this a bit.  I am thinking of the two different click paths 
for a Madrid application:

  * the more expensive click path, where the filer is choosing to make
    the Madrid case non-identical to the basic case, and some human
    being in the MPU has to carry out the certification steps manually
    (the goods "cover" the goods, the owners are the same, etc.), and
  * the less expensive click path, where the Madrid case is defined as
    being identical to the basic case, and thus the USPTO software is
    able to auto-certify the Madrid application.

Does the Trademark Office's failure to assign design codes promptly 
affect both of these click paths, or only the latter?

On 2/23/2025 5:50 AM, Keller, Scott via E-trademarks wrote:
>
> Has anyone else noticed that it is taking a long time for design codes 
> to be assigned.  I just got a design code email on an application I 
> filed August 1, 2025.  It seems to me this used to happen within days 
> or at least a week of filing.  This had an effect on other 
> applications I filed because I found with two other applications that, 
> while the application was in TSDR, I could not prepopulate a Madrid 
> application.  I sent emails to Trademark assistance and after I 
> received the design code designation email, the Madrid would 
> prepopulate.  It is going to be an issue for Madrid applications if 
> this is the standard practice now to wait over 6 months before issuing 
> the design code designations and prepopulation cannot occur until 
> then.  I know I can just fill in the whole Madrid application, but 
> that is time consuming and can lead to errors that would not occur 
> with pre-population.
>
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