[E-trademarks] Questionable Wordmarks, Revisited

Thu Sep 11 12:08:51 UTC 2025

Good news!  The wordmark entries for the 46 live registrations with unexpected occurrences of the ? (question mark character) have all been corrected.
Well, 86958465 (BAMB?SI) has been corrected to BAMBÜSI, but Trademark Search still displays the [Image for 86958465, select for more details]  drawing, so you still have to toggle to TSDR to see a proper drawing.

I noticed something strange with at least 7 of the wordmark corrections.  See if you notice the oddity too.

#
SN
WD
1
79271914
RöCHLING
2
79173594
GAëLLE
3
79164130
BüRKLE
4
79151358
GONöTURN
5
79136585
RäDLINGER PRIMUS LINE
6
79093794
KNüRR DCM
7
79057202
HäFELE

So, what did you notice?

Maybe that each of these wordmark entries has a lower-case character with a diacritical mark?  To me, this suggests that someone with system administrator power performed the corrections, bypassing the normal lower-case to UPPER-CASE conversion of the wordmark entries.  If so, the next time a text update occurs for any of these registrations, the wordmark entry likely will be converted to UPPER-CASE only characters.

Also, the bonus LUCK? CL?VER trademark that I included in my FYI to E-Trademarks has not been corrected.  I guess the lurkers missed that opportunity.

My questionable wordmarks list still has over 160 trademarks including 140 registrations.  Should I provide more examples to the USPTO to see if they will correct those too?

Happy Trademarking,
Ken Boone

PS: I've noticed that Pre-Exam dislikes Asian and Arabic characters in wordmark entries - that when Pre-Exam performs their initial processing (to standardize the wordmark entries to USPTO standards {which I've yet to find in the TMEP}) and add pseudomarks and design codes, they often delete the Asian/Arabic Unicode characters from the wordmark.  Here are three recent examples.

SN
Original Wordmark
Current Wordmark
99147291
كز KOCHI
KOCHI
99160404
ARABIC CHARACTERS دار الورد
99162243
おせん (JAPANESE CHARACTERS, MEANING OSEN IN ENGLISH )OMAKASE BY OSEN AUTHENTIC JAPANESE RESTAURANT
OMAKASE BY OSEN AUTHENTIC JAPANESE RESTAURANT

The second example was declared a DESIGN ONLY trademark and the wordmark entry was deleted (versus keeping  دار الورد  that appears to match the drawing as the wordmark).

It annoys me that Pre-Exam would delete Unicode characters (that likely will be useful for searching in the future) from wordmark entries. Does it bother you?  (Well, I also hate the lower-case to UPPER-CASE conversion that typically occurs for wordmark entries, so what do I know?)

PPS: And everyone has noticed that new US applications no longer get the UNKNOWN mark drawing code, right?

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Subject: [E-trademarks] Questionable Wordmarks, Revisited

FYI - Below, I shared 46 registered trademarks from my questionable wordmark list with the USPTO in hopes that they would correct these wordmark entries ASAP.   I selected these 46 questionable wordmark entries from my list because these registrations have neither pseudo marks nor translation/transliteration statements to aid in searching for these trademarks.

I anticipate making a follow-up posting in about a month.  Well, assuming I see any corrections performed.

BTW, the new questionable wordmark for 2025 that I mentioned below has LUCK? CL?VER as the wordmark for
[previously viewed                          Image for 99307215, select for more details]
which should be more than enough clues to find that trademark.  Maybe a USPTO lurker could get this questionable wordmark corrected too?
Happy Trademarking,
Ken Boone

________________________________
From: Ken Boone <boondogles at hotmail.com>
Sent: Friday, September 5, 2025 10:55 AM
To: TMFeedback <tmfeedback at uspto.gov>
Cc: TMdatabasecorrect at uspto.gov <TMdatabasecorrect at uspto.gov>
Subject: Questionable Wordmarks, Revisited

I still keep a Questionable Wordmark list (over 200 trademarks), where each entry has at least one ? (question mark) occurring in the wordmark where some other standard character would be more appropriate.  The good news:  occurrences of new questionable wordmarks this year are down significantly.  The bad news: at least one pending questionable wordmark filed this year was NOT corrected by Pre-Exam when they performed their initial processing of that application (as evident by the addition of design codes for that application), plus there have been few corrections to my questionable wordmark list this year.

Below is a sample of 46 live registrations from my questionable wordmark list. I recommend correcting these wordmark entries ASAP!

#
SN
Wordmark
Drawing
1
77147766
M?MBINO ORGANICS
[Image for 77147766, select for more details]
2
79057202
H?FELE
[Image for 79057202, select for more details]
3
79066339
SCH?NENBERGER
[Image for 79066339, select for more details]
4
79078161
FR?TEK
[Image for 79078161, select for more details]
5
79084586
?TS LEICHTMET?LLR?DER
[Image for 79084586, select for more details]
6
79093794
KN?RR DCM
  [Image for 79093794, select for more details]
7
79110093
BJ?RN BORG
[Image for 79110093, select for more details]
8
79136585
R?DLINGER PRIMUS LINE
[Image for 79136585, select for more details]
9
79151358
GON?TURN
[Image for 79151358, select for more details]
10
79158147
M?LNLYCKE
  [Image for 79158147, select for more details]
11
79164130
B?RKLE
[Image for 79164130, select for more details]
12
79173594
GA?LLE
 [Image for 79173594, select for more details]
13
79260678
D?RR
  [Image for 79260678, select for more details]
14
79271914
R?CHLING
[Image for 79271914, select for more details]
15
79325566
FREDDIE?S FLOWERS
[Image for 79325566, select for more details]
16
79336315
SL?TTNY
  [Image for 79336315, select for more details]
17
79369666
EMPEROR?S POWER
[Image for 79369666, select for more details]
18
79370475
O?CAT
  [Image for 79370475, select for more details]
19
79382545
DOMAINE D?EUGENIE
 [Image for 79382545, select for more details]
20
79391101
RESPIN ?EM IN
[Image for 79391101, select for more details]
21
85215783
FR?D?RIC OZANAM
  [Image for 85215783, select for more details]
22
85231434
PRO?SENSE
  [Image for 85231434, select for more details]
23
85916160
(B?H'DEE)
 [Image for 85916160, select for more details]
24
86188898
PALE BR?E EYES PALE ALE
[Image for 86188898, select for more details]
25
86215539
MAMA PH?
 [Image for 86215539, select for more details]
26
86465658
H?LO?SE LLORIS
  [Image for 86465658, select for more details]
27
86603385
BB BE BORD?
  [Image for 86603385, select for more details]
28
86681454
IOL?
[Image for 86681454, select for more details]
29
86836488
I?ME?I
[Image for 86836488, select for more details]
30
86958465
BAMB?SI
  [Image for 86958465, select for more details]
31
87047817
Z?MXR
[Image for 87047817, select for more details]
32
88333790
LA REINE CH?RIE
 [Image for 88333790, select for more details]
33
88932623
ST?LZ
[Image for 88932623, select for more details]
34
88985052
SN?X
 [Image for 88985052, select for more details]
35
90047219
AHH GAVE?
 [Image for 90047219, select for more details]
36
90410827
EV?K
[Image for 90410827, select for more details]
37
90682127
ATTACH?
[Image for 90682127, select for more details]
38
97029017
BO?LAN
[Image for 97029017, select for more details]
39
97081446
HR?
  [Image for 97081446, select for more details]
40
97324107

V. KOHLERT S?HNE GRASLITZ

[Image for 97324107, select for more details]
41
97324153
V.KOHLERT & S?HNE
[Image for 97324153, select for more details]
42
97409794
FOURT?
  [Image for 97409794, select for more details]
43
97679476
DOZ?
[Image for 97679476, select for more details]
44
97773111
TH?A MEDITERRANEAN ROOFTOP
[Image for 97773111, select for more details]
45
97977752
PROTECT ? A ? BED
[Image for 97977752, select for more details]
46
98261424
N?VINYE'S HANDS
[previously viewed                          Image for 98261424, select for more details]

The search SN:( 77147766 79057202 79066339 79078161 79084586 79093794 79110093 79136585 79151358 79158147 79164130 79173594 79260678 79271914 79325566 79336315 79369666 79370475 79382545 79391101 85215783 85231434 85916160 86188898 86215539 86465658 86603385 86681454 86836488 86958465 87047817 88333790 88932623 88985052 90047219 90410827 90682127 97029017 97081446 97324107 97324153 97409794 97679476 97773111 97977752 98261424 ) retrieves these 46 trademarks.  Note that Trademark Search fails to display a drawing for the 30th trademark (86958465).  IMO, these 46 wordmark entries should be corrected ASAP, particular since I selected these questionable wordmark entries from my list because these registrations have neither pseudo marks nor translation/transliteration statements to aid in searching for these trademarks.

Hope this helps,
Ken Boone, USPTO IT Specialist (Retired)
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