[E-trademarks] 2024 USPTO filings (mostly not from this list)

[Carl Oppedahl]

On 1/20/2025 11:09 AM, Orvis via E-trademarks wrote:
> An exam would be fine for a lot of reasons. But, a measure to address 
> fraudulent or over inclusive applications and renewals should directly 
> do that. No address thing. Not a test thing. Start aggressively and 
> systematically questioning foreign based applications with class 
> headings for goods and services and laundry lists of unrelated goods, 
> along with renewals with questionable specimens. Just keep rejecting 
> them until only legitimate ones are filed.

Yes one of the things that most definitely needs to happen is better 
examining at the Trademark Office.

The big problem with this is that it is not easy.  It is hard. It 
requires pesky and difficult things like hiring more Examining 
Attorneys, and training them well, and probably changing the production 
metrics to reward "getting the right answer more often" instead of 
"cranking out X number of cases per day".  It is very hard work to 
devise good metrics for this stuff.  It is very hard to write up new and 
high quality training materials for this stuff.

That requires spine and hard work, both of which I fear are in limited 
supply among leadership at the Trademark Office.

It is much easier to try to make the problem go away by imposing 
simple-to-articulate bright-line standards that at least pretend to 
help, and that do not add very much to the workload for the EAs, and 
where the burdens all fall upon persons who are outside of the Trademark 
Office.

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