Category: Trademarks

Thanks to John L. Welch’s hundreds of blog articles about 2d refusals, I have gotten to the point where sometimes I can guess correctly the outcome of an ex parte appeal of a 2d refusal.  The alert reader might ask:

• • What is a “2d refusal”?
  • Why would it be interesting to try to guess “the outcome of an ex parte appeal of a 2d refusal”?
  • How might it be that hundreds of blog articles by John L. Welch might lead to a situation in which sometimes I can guess the outcome of such an appeal?
  • And, what can be said of John L. Welch’s extraordinary contributions to the trademark community through his blog?  Continue reading “Learning to guess outcomes of appeals of 2d refusals”

Do you or your trademark client ever find that your outbound email to somebody ends up in their spam folder?  Do you or your trademark client ever find that your outbound email to a recipient gets wrongly bounced as “suspected spam” or gets silently discarded by the recipient’s email service provider?

There’s a chance that BIMI, which draws upon a registered trademark of the sender of an email message, might help a little with these problems.  What is BIMI?  What must an email sender do to get BIMI to work?

Continue reading “Why all trademark practitioners need to know about BIMI”

As I reported in an earlier blog article, Trademark Center is broken for trademark applications in which the mark is a logo.   USPTO is failing to handle this failure well. Continue reading “USPTO fails to handle system failure well”

January 18, 2025 was the day that the USPTO shut down TEAS for the filing of new US trademark applications.  Starting that day, the only way to file a US trademark application has been Trademark Center.

And now, as of a couple of days ago, Trademark Center has been broken for trademark applications in which the mark is a logo (rather than standard characters).  The practitioner prepares the application and sends it to the client for review and possible e-signature.   The client clicks on the link to review the application, and within seconds, Trademark Center jumps abruptly to its main page.  It is impossible for the client to review or e-sign the application.

This was first reported two days ago by an alert trademark practitioner in the E-Trademarks Listerv, which is a community of over a thousand trademark practitioners.