What follows is a rather long and rambling story ending with an explanation as to why this plaque, which looks big in the photograph but is actually not very big, hangs on the wall of my office. Continue reading “Reassuring the client”
Nowadays when the time comes to do a six-year or ten-year renewal of a US trademark registration, I find that I often need to spend a lot of extra professional time explaining to the client why I feel we need to have lots of extra specimens of use. And I find I often need to spend a lot of extra professional time explaining to the client why I feel we need to work harder than ever before on canceling goods and services from the registration as part of the renewal process. I’ll explain why this is. Continue reading “Why do we need so many specimens of use nowadays?”
2020 is a leap year. What got me thinking about this is a sentence that I just wrote in an email message to instructing counsel in Turkey for a US case that our firm is handling:
We now have an Office Action and it is attached. To avoid abandonment a response must be made by February 29, 2020.
Which prompts a discourse on the inadequacy of integers. All but the most diehard blog readers are invited to skip the following. Continue reading “2020 is a leap year”
