[E-trademarks] "Trademark Examining Law Clerk"??

[Laura Geyer]

Dear Listmates:

I probably missed something where this change was announced, but I was recently invited to view one of the most fiddly, pointless initial office actions I've ever seen (not my client!), signed by a "Trademark Examining Law Clerk" and not an examining attorney. It was a refusal w/ very boilerplate cut-n-paste and included mistakes of law that do not apply to the covered situation and some stuff that was just weird.

So is it now normal at the PTO for non-attorneys to examine applications and issue refusals that are pretty clearly "practice of law"? Can one request that an actual lawyer take a look at it before blowing a lot of client money responding to a seriously shoddy OA?

Cheers,
Laura

Laura Talley Geyer | Of Counsel

ND Galli Law LLC
1200 G Street, N.W., Ste 800
Washington, DC 20005
Tel: (202) 599-9019 (direct)
https://ndgallilaw.com/laura-geyer/
https://ndgallilaw.com/

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