[E-trademarks] Only 2,151 Registrations Granted This Week?

[Ken Boone]

Trademark Search shows that only 2,151 new registrations were granted this week.

Below are new registration counts for the last 11 weeks, where the counts for the last 2 weeks are unusually low.  I included the corresponding Wednesday pending application counts to highlight the impact of fewer new registrations on pendency.

#
Search
      Regs
  Pending
1
RD:20250729 AND RN:*
            2,151
      931,820
2
RD:20250722 AND RN:*
            2,266
      926,089
3
RD:20250715 AND RN:*
            7,375
      921,299
4
RD:20250708 AND RN:*
            7,290
      921,704
5
RD:20250701 AND RN:*
            7,503
      923,196
6
RD:20250624 AND RN:*
            7,467
      925,427
7
RD:20250617 AND RN:*
            7,197
      925,847
8
RD:20250610 AND RN:*
            7,858
      925,572
9
RD:20250603 AND RN:*
            7,825
      926,217
10
RD:20250527 AND RN:*
            7,792
      926,213
11
RD:20250520 AND RN:* 
            8,133
      927,607

With the smaller number of new registrations for the last 2 weeks, the count of pending applications has increased from 921,299 on Wednesday, July 16th to 931,820 today, an increase of over 10,000 pending applications in 2 weeks.

The graph below shows the counts of pending applications on Wednesdays for May through July.

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Any guesses of why new registrations have dropped so significantly for the past two weeks?

Happy Trademarking!
Ken Boone
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Subject: [E-trademarks] Only 2,266 Registrations Granted This Week?

By my checks on Trademark Search this morning, only 2,266 new registrations were granted this week.  That's much lower than usual.

Below are new registration counts for the last 10 weeks.

#      Search                    Count
 1     RD:20250722 AND RN:*      2266
 2     RD:20250715 AND RN:*      7375
 3     RD:20250708 AND RN:*      7290
 4     RD:20250701 AND RN:*      7503
 5     RD:20250624 AND RN:*      7467
 6     RD:20250617 AND RN:*      7197
 7     RD:20250610 AND RN:*      7858
 8     RD:20250603 AND RN:*      7829
 9     RD:20250527 AND RN:*      7792
10    RD:20250520 AND RN:*       8133

Any guesses of why only 2,266 registrations were granted this week?

Another curiosity.  The search RD:20250715 AND RN:* AND RN:/<7869697-9999999>/ retrieves just one registration and indicates that registration 7869697 is the highest registration granted on July 15th.   The similar search RD:20250722 AND RN:* AND RN:/<7869697-7870260>/ retrieves just one registration and indicates that registration 7870260 is the lowest registration granted on July 22nd.  Notice the gap.  Checking, the search RN:/<7869698-7870259>/ retrieves only one registration, namely registration 7870240 (serial number 87984266), a registration on the Supplemental Register that was granted on February 5, 2019 (but it looks like some divisional activity is in progress).   Why would the USPTO largely skip over 500 registration numbers for the range 7869698 through 7870259, only using 7870240 for that registration number range?

And I couldn't help but notice that registration 7870260, the lowest registration number for July 22nd, has the following drawing.

[Image for 79277930, select for more details]

The wordmark for this design with text registration is ALIVER, but it sure looks like the last character of that wordmark is really the ® registration symbol.  Clever application, or violation of the rule of not allowing the ® registration symbol in drawings?

Curiously,
Ken Boone

PS - There's yet another box characters standard character mark drawing, namely

[previously viewed                          Image for 99284311, select for more details]
for the standard character mark 백년목련어묵filed on July 15th. Yet another applicant failed to check the USPTO generated standard character mark drawing.  So it goes.
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