[E-trademarks] Questionable Wordmarks, Revisited

Thu Sep 11 17:41:59 UTC 2025

Below is fresh feedback to the USPTO, namely a new list of 20 questionable registrations that should be corrected ASAP.

>> Of course what one really hopes for is that the Trademark Office would also take corrective action so that the initial review process would not overlook such things going forward. [Carl]

While I agree with Carl, for the new 99-series that began in January, I only see 2 questionable wordmark entries, where one has an unusual drawing {the applicant included extraneous text in the drawing (99341339) that may trigger an informal application once Pre-Exam processes the application} and the other is that LUCK? CL?VER trademark (where it looks like the Voluntary Amendment form fails to handle Unicode characters, but how many applicants use that form?).  The questionable wordmark phenomena are mostly TEAS/Madrid legacy problems for less-than-ideal processing of Unicode characters or 8-bit ASCII characters (decimal values over 127) which I hope are disappearing now that USPTO systems mostly appear to handle Unicode characters.  (Then again, I'm concentrating on wordmark entries, so I'm not looking for irregularities in other text fields (e.g., the search (GS:( "attachÃ© cases" )) AND LD:true retrieves 6 trademarks with the unusual attachÃ© cases text in the GS field, but who wants to proof-read GS text entries?), and searches like FD:[20250811 TO *] NOT GS:* (68 new trademarks without GS text) and FD:[20250811 TO *] NOT ON:* (7 new trademarks without any owner text) demonstrate that initial USPTO processes still fail to cleanly transfer all application text to TRAM/TSDR. So it goes.

Happy Trademarking,
Ken Boone

________________________________
From: Ken Boone <boondogles at hotmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2025 11:49 AM
To: TMFeedback <tmfeedback at uspto.gov>
Subject: Re: Questionable Wordmarks, Revisited

By my checks, the wordmark entries for the 46 live registrations provided 5 September 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 users still have to toggle to TSDR to see a proper drawing.

Below is a new list of 20 questionable registrations that should be corrected ASAP.

#
SN
WD
Drawing
1
75316798
ACT ? LABS
  [Image for 75316798, select for more details]
2
76572171
K?HL
 [Image for 76572171, select for more details]
3
77569007
KNOWLEDGE ? INNOVATION ? PERFORMANCE ? VALUE
  [Image for 77569007, select for more details]
4
78163331
EL SE?ORIO
 [Image for 78163331, select for more details]
5
79049660
CH?TEAU
 TRONQUOY-LALANDE
SAINT-EST?PHE
[Image for 79049660, select for more details]
6
79049661
CH?TEAU MONTROSE
SAINT-EST?PHE
[Image for 79049661, select for more details]

7
79072312
CHAMPAGNE CH?TEAU DE BLIGNY
  [Image for 79072312, select for more details]
8
79080027
FLEURS DE LUMI?RE
  [Image for 79080027, select for more details]
9
79088941
BAISER VOL?
  [Image for 79088941, select for more details]
10
79090344
MAS MACI?
[Image for 79090344, select for more details]
11
79090757
CH?TEAU FOURCAS-BORIE
  [Image for 79090757, select for more details]
12
79097931
FOREST-LIN?
[Image for 79097931, select for more details]
13
79099121
G?RKAL
 [Image for 79099121, select for more details]
14
79099220
LA VALL?E
 [Image for 79099220, select for more details]
15
79107274
K?STROLITH
 [Image for 79107274, select for more details]
16
85151206
SCHL?PPI
 [Image for 85151206, select for more details]
17
85391824
IMPACT
 MONTR?AL
[Image for 85391824, select for more details]
18
85533315
H?TEL PLAZA ATH?N?E
 [Image for 85533315, select for more details]
19
85625785
D?LICE CHOCOLATIER & PATISSERIE
[Image for 85625785, select for more details]
20
85649940
DERMAVIT?L
 [Image for 85649940, select for more details]

Search SN:( 75316798 76572171 77569007 78163331 79049660 79049661 79072312 79080027 79088941 79090344 79090757 79097931 79099121 79099220 79107274 85151206 85391824 85533315 85625785 85649940 ) to retrieve these 20 registrations on Trademark Search.

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