Retirement? SUCCESS! Goodbye FRAUDULENT SCAMMERS - Trademark Proficient, Trademark League & Trademark Prompt. TOOLS TO FIGHT BACK!
Client, thank you, thank you, thank you!
I am happy to report and support your complaints about the scamming fraudster trademark services plaguing us all.
Notice the LIKE web sites. When 1 gets whacked, another appears. Whack a mole.
I hope you didn’t hire one of these losers.
Be aware, there are still about 47 more of these FRAUDULENT SCAMMERS in operation today. WATCH OUT!
See the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to see what they once were: https://web.archive.org/.
Notice how short their lifespans are. Maybe that’s part of the SCAM. Here today. Gone tomorrow. “Got a USPTO or CIPO refusal? Good luck, we ain’t here anymore.”
Since writing these articles over the last 2 years, we seemingly have become a magnet of your complaints about being scammed by all the “low fee” fraudsters who are here today then gone tomorrow, who pester you.
We don’t have time to find these lowlifes. Glad you do!
Nowadays we are getting 1 to 3 complaints a day, every day, from frustrated business owners who are being bombarded by dubious weird claims to “act now”. One client have 6 spammers try to trick him within just 2 weeks.
They come fast and furious via ENDLESS scare letter mailings, email, text, spoof phone call, fake pay-per-click ad web sites on all the search engines and even USPTO impersonators – demanding your $ NOW.
Why do you think the USPTO now demands ID.ME, attorney representatives for foreign based trademarks and why they TERMINATE thousands of FRAUDULENT trademarks in huge batches? The USPTO refusal rate has soared to 49% of new applications because of all the BAD APPLICATIONS and FRAUDULENT SIGNATURES.
The common denominator is they are all “low fee”, to grapple with your credit card, to get a foot, (two feet?), into your wallet. Then come the incompetence, lies about USPTO fees, over trademarking into classes you do not qualify for, charging for free USPTO steps to reach registration all based on FRAUDULENTLY signing YOUR NAME to all the USPTO correspondence. FORGING your name means your trademark is WORTHLESS FROM DAY ONE.
Note: ONLY you or your authorized ATTORNEY is allowed to sign a trademark application.
Their ploy for this is to IMPERSONATE a dead or retired trademark attorney to fake their signature.
NASTY.
NASTY.
NASTY.
Here’s some articles Tim Lince, a reporter from Law Business Research, in London UK, shared with me that he wrote for WTR – World Trademark Review, while talking about all the scams hitting unsuspecting small businesses.
FTC issues urgent warning on USPTO scams as calls grow for DOJ crackdown
Logo design company threatened me out of $40,000, claims small business owner
USPTO seeks federal trademark registration to help tackle “growing problem” of filing scams
Scammers are impersonating the United States Patent and Trademark Office
See my last article, below, on August 1 to see the USPTO efforts to terminate these FRAUDULENT trademarks, even years later.
When we receive complaints from intimidated clients, we share these ways to FIGHT BACK.
1) USPTO – TMScams
2) FTC – https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/
3) STATE ATTORNEY GENERALS – To report a scam to your State Attorney General, find your state’s specific consumer protection office on the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) website or through USA.gov. You can then file a complaint online or by mail through the Attorney General’s website, which helps investigate scams and may mediate disputes with businesses.
4) SBA – Office of Inspector General Hotline
5) BBB – https://www.bbb.org/scamtracker/reportscam
6) SSA – https://www.ssa.gov/scam/
7) FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) – https://www.ic3.gov/
8) USPS – Any fraud that uses the U.S. Mail®—whether it originates in the mail, by phone, or online—is mail fraud. It’s a scheme to get money or something of value from you by offering a product, service, or investment opportunity that does not live up to its claims. Prosecutors must prove the claims were intentionally misrepresented and that the mail was used to carry out the scheme.
Sometimes we assist. Sometimes we watch and monitor.
AGAIN – Maybe that’s part of the SCAM. Here today. Gone tomorrow. “Got a USPTO or CIPO refusal? Good luck, we ain’t here anymore.”
I cannot tell you how satisfying it is to see the above 3 fake trademark service web sites simply fade away. I can’t believe we have time to watch. Going forward we’ll make time.
Keep the complaints coming! Keep helping!
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Chris DeMassa, Founder – 650-948-0530
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AUGUST 1, 2025 ARTICLE
Hello Client, here’s some not so fun trademark facts, you don’t want to know.
Are you aware that when a “low fee” trademark attorney -or- fraudulent service scam is chosen to hire when people think, (not you), trademarks are as easy as ordering a “matcha with boba”, signs an owner’s name – AS THEY ALL DO – to a trademark application, then it is INVALID.
Getting even crazier is when they usurp a deceased trademark attorney’s name and State bar # to fake their signature to a trademark application. Then it is INVALID.
The USPTO investigates these issues before unilaterally terminating such trademark filings. This process could take years.
The repercussions for new trademark filers and existing trademark owners is mind boggling. Trademarks are looked at in groups, when analyzing sound, appearance and meaning similarities. Ramifications are worth another article for another day.
USPTO – Administrative sanctions process. TERMINATIONS.
https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/protect/administrative-sanctions-process
USPTO – Recognizing common scams.
https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/protect/recognizing-common-scams
USPTO – Protect against trademark scams.
https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/protect
USPTO – Examples of fraudulent or misleading solicitations.
https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/protect/examples-fraudulent-misleading-solicitations
USPTO – Trademark Decisions and Proceedings. 1018 here.
https://developer.uspto.gov/tm-decisions/search/administrative