[E-trademarks] Latest spam

Wed Jun 4 18:41:56 UTC 2025

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From: E-trademarks <e-trademarks-bounces at oppedahl-lists.com> On Behalf Of Paul Supnik via E-trademarks
Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2025 2:37 PM
To: For trademark practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek legal advice. <e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com>
Cc: Paul Supnik <paul at supnik.com>
Subject: [E-trademarks] Latest spam

An amazing  number of my clients have been receiving the following type of message:

Dear ____:

I hope this email finds you well. The United States Patent and Trademark Office notified us that an individual from Virginia [ALWAYS FROM VIRGINIA] had applied for the identical trademark name [CLIENT ENTITY NAME]  Consequently, we have been granted a 48-hour deadline window by the USPTO to obtain ownership of this mark or else the trademark would be awarded to a third party as their intellectual property.

According to the records of the USPTO, the [CLIENT ENTITY NAME] is not currently trademarked and does not appear in the United States Patent & Trademark Office database. Under the law, if a name is not trademarked, it is considered available for registration by anyone in the United States, regardless of how long a company has been using it. The critical factor is the existence of a valid trademark; if another entity secures the trademark before you, they will have a legal advantage over you, even if you have been using the name.

....
Please let me know if you would like to move on; if not, we will withdraw from your case and the mark will be awarded to a third party, causing you to lose ownership of it.
......

The email gives the name of a purported attorney, and a suspicious phone number which has an area code not matching the purported attorney address.  The attorney may be real, but I suspect is not an authorized communication from that attorney.  In fact I checked on one of these on the State Bar website and there is such an attorney without a listed phone number so there is no practical way to determine whether that attorney authorized the communication.  There is a logo accompanying this with of course the legal scales of justice.

I used to receive similar inquiries from clients regarding similar threats in China.  Anyone else seeing these?

Regards,

Paul D. Supnik

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