[E-trademarks] Standard Character Curiosity - 98595378 - TENT ˆ WOMEN

[Ken Boone]

Apologies in advance for this posting, but the more I review this application, the more unusual it becomes.

[Image for 98595378, select for more details]

On December 30th, I noticed this unusual standard character mark and thought no big deal.

Today, I looked a little deeper.

By my checks, the 6th character of the wordmark for 98595378 is ˆ with decimal value 136, but that character is NOT on the USPTO's standard character list.

Char
T
E
N
T

ˆ

W
O
M
E
N
Decimal
84
69
78
84
32
136
32
87
79
77
69
78

The trademark is extremely unique, as the search WD:*ˆ* retrieves exactly 1 trademark - that no other trademark in the USPTO trademark data, live or dead, includes the character ˆ in the wordmark.

Go to the raw application on TSDR and you'll see that Tent^Women was the wordmark literal provided.  Huh?  My check of that wordmark shows the 5th character ^ has the decimal value 94, and that character is on the USPTO's standard character list.  Also, the raw literal element is only 10 characters long and has no blank spaces.  Also, IMO, Tent^Women more accurately matches the drawing.

Char
T
e
n
t
^
W
o
m
e
n
Decimal
84
101
110
116
94
87
111
109
101
110

While this trademark was filed on June 11th, I didn't notice this trademark until December 30th. While I don't do the WD:*ˆ* search daily, I certainly have done that search dozens of times between the 6/11 filing date and 12/30 discovery of this unexpected wordmark.

The prosecution history
Dec. 30, 2024     APPROVED FOR PUB - PRINCIPAL REGISTER     
Dec. 30, 2024     ASSIGNED TO EXAMINER    96797
Dec. 29, 2024     NEW APPLICATION OFFICE SUPPLIED DATA ENTERED    
Jun. 11, 2024     NEW APPLICATION ENTERED 
is a little unusual.  I conclude that Pre-Exam performed their review on the trademark on 12/29, the day before my WD:*ˆ* search first retrieved this trademark. I suspect some hiccup in USPTO's initial processing occurred for this application and that Pre-Exam supplied the current wordmark on 12/29.  Then again, I'm a bit suspicious.

Well, now it is on its way to publication.  Yes, I would prefer to have the wordmark updated to TENT^WOMEN to match the literal element of the raw application (with the USPTO standard conversion to UPPER CASE characters), but I'll leave that to the USPTO lurkers.

Below is a partial listing of the TSDR view of this trademark.

Generated on:     This page was generated by TSDR on 2025-01-02 06:33:57 EST
Mark: TENT ˆ WOMEN      
US Serial Number: 98595378    Application Filing Date:      Jun. 11, 2024
Filed as TEAS Plus:     Yes   Currently TEAS Plus:    Yes
Register:   Principal
Mark Type:  Trademark, Service Mark
TM5 Common Status Descriptor: TM5 Common Status image 
LIVE/APPLICATION/Under Examination

The trademark application has been accepted by the Office (has met the minimum filing requirements) and that this application has been assigned to an examiner.

Status:     Review prior to publication completed.
Status Date:      Jan. 01, 2025
Publication Date: Jan. 21, 2025           


Mark Literal Elements:  TENT ˆ WOMEN
Standard Character Claim:     Yes. The mark consists of standard characters without claim to any particular font style, size, or color.
Mark Drawing Type:      4 - STANDARD CHARACTER MARK

Prosecution History
Date  Description Proceeding Number
Dec. 30, 2024     APPROVED FOR PUB - PRINCIPAL REGISTER     
Dec. 30, 2024     ASSIGNED TO EXAMINER    96797
Dec. 29, 2024     NEW APPLICATION OFFICE SUPPLIED DATA ENTERED    
Jun. 11, 2024     NEW APPLICATION ENTERED 


Happy Trademarking,
Ken Boone

PS:  My almost daily search for unexected characters occurring is standard character marks is

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

Today, that search retrieves 20 trademarks.  If you perform that search, I expect many of the trademarks retrieved will look familiar from some of my earlier postings. Previously, on TESS, I used the [DM] - Decimal Mark search field to check for unexpected characters in standard character mark, but the Trademark Search folks ignored my suggestion to duplicate the Decimal Mark search field on Trademark Search.
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