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USPTO should do a policy change

TradeMark Express: AnOTHER open letter to the USPTO —-> Please do NOT raise trademark fees. Try a POLICY change instead.

Hello TradeMark Express faithful. I hope to meet with someone at the USPTO when I go there in 4 weeks. Wish me luck. I was inspired again, (as if I needed any more inspiration), while watching the Giants/Rays game last Sunday, April 14. My mission in life seems to have come to combating the outright […]

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TradeMark Express: An open letter to the USPTO ----> Please do NOT raise trademark fees. Try a POLICY change instead.

TradeMark Express: An open letter to the USPTO —-> Please do NOT raise trademark fees. Try a POLICY change instead.

Dear TradeMark Express Clients, higher trademark fees should be the last course of action by the USPTO. They are proposing to dramatically raise their fees on Oct 1, 2024. Please see details of the proposed USPTO trademark fee increase below, from our application staff. Here’s my comments. This chart is from an excellent article by

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TradeMark Express: Trademark Engine. Part 3 of 3

TradeMark Express: I.P. Scams Cont’d….TRADEMARK ENGINE. Pay a Pauper’s Fee, Get Royally Screwed. Part 3 of 3

Two of Trademark Engine operations are named Swyft Filings and Swyft Legal. Unfortunately, there is a prior existing company offering overlapping legal services named Swift Legal. See above and https://www.swiftlegal.com/. Their national Common Law rights have existed since 1976. Swyft Filings and Swyft Legal’s common law rights started in 2021. Swift Legal has 7 more years to enforce against Swyft Filings and Swyft Legal. Will they? Here’s the 3 parts of Trademark Engine

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TradeMark Express: I.P. Scams Cont'd....TRADEMARK (not exactly) APEX - "We're located in San Franco." EMAIL SCAM

TradeMark Express: I.P. Scams Cont’d….TRADEMARK (not exactly) APEX – “We’re located in San Franco.” EMAIL SCAM

TradeMark Express: I.P. Scams Cont’d….TRADEMARK (not exactly) APEX – “We’re located in San Franco.” EMAIL SCAM There is a proliferation of new email trademark scams. Here’s a new one which 2 of our clients sent us last week – TRADEMARK APEX.Just 40 miles away in San Francisco, I went there. Of course. Why not? But,

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TradeMark Engine gets you royally screwed

TRADEMARK ENGINE. Pay a Pauper’s Fee, Get Royally Screwed – Part 2 of 3 –030424

Order a United States -or- Canada Federal Trademark Hello Client, eleven days ago was the Super Bowl. It is sports pinnacle event of “fair play”, “good faith” and “good sportsmanship” fun. In our professional lives we want to emulate sports. Build a better business. Beat our competitors. We strive to succeed. Pride is taken, as

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TradeMark Engine gets you royally screwed

TRADEMARK ENGINE. Pay a Pauper’s Fee, Get Royally Screwed – Part 1 of 3 –022224

Hello Client, eleven days ago was the SuperBowl. It is sports pinnacle event of “fairplay”, “good faith” and “good sportsmanship”fun. In our professional lives we want to emulate sports. Build a better business. Beat our competitors. We strive to succeed. Pride is taken, as we build what we hope to be generational wealth. Well, at

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Trademark Pearl – Another Trademark Scam – Preying on Small Business

Dear Client, wow how to make this short?!Trademark Pearl is the second trademark serviceI am taking a look at for their trademark practices. Here’s some quick comments, with 2 examplesand here’s a terrific write up by SabiReviews. After several conversations with “attorneys” atTrademark Pearl, I decided to drive to their office59 miles away to talk

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LegalZoom – Deceptive, Bait & Switch Trademark Practices – 121423

Dear Client, LegalZoom is the firsttrademark service I am taking a lookat for their trademark practices.Please allow me to frame thesituation with trademarks, so myfindings over the past 2 months willmake sense. Let’s start with the FACTS.1) When you contact a trademarkservice or attorney, their duty andresponsibility is to actually help you. They see the

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TradeMark Express & Urgent Trademark: Since 1992 - The Hidden Menace: How Poor Trademark Practices Damage Small Businesses and Capitalism

TradeMark Express & Urgent Trademark: Since 1992 – The Hidden Menace: How Poor Trademark Practices Damage Small Businesses and Capitalism.

In the ever changing wild world of business, trademarks are more than just symbols or logos; they’re the embodiment of a brand’s identity, reputation and success. Protecting these valuable assets is crucial for the continued growth of small businesses and the health of capitalism as a whole. Small business is the foundation of capitalism. It

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What do we actually owe our business customers Our employees Ourselves 

Dear clients, money comes to great businesses. If you want to open a business for the money alone – DON’T. If you have a product or service to solve a need and enough determination to make it happen – then you will be competitive in the marketplace. Don’t agree with Jon Fisher’s business moves At

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TradeMark Express 30th Anniversary

Trademark Express thanks you for your patronage, patience to get your trademark right and repeat business! We wouldn’t be the oldest, most successful trademarking service in North America without you. Celebrating our 30th Anniversary Trademark Express seems to be the last trademark service including some inexperienced trademark attorneys, who believe in ACTUAL COMPREHENSIVE legal research

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TME – Pursuit of Your Ideal Intellectual Property Management

Are you fully aware how your intellectual property is legally affected when someone else trademarks the same -or- similar company name? What is intellectual property? Every company name, slogan or logo is subject to trademark law and common law. If your mark is used first, then your firm has common law rights over any other

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TME – Beware of a new trademark phone call scam impersonating the USPTO

Good Morning! The USPTO has reported this scam. There is a new phone call trademark scam starting up – as if we needed another one. The USPTO publishes a list of 85 documented scam examples. See – https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/protect/recognizing-common-scams  (See more links about scams below.) Personally, I’d add add all the trademark services and attorneys who

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The strategy of filing minimal art to get a trademark for your company

Shhhh! Is this a trademark? This is a good example where MINIMAL ART was used to qualify for a trademark registration, so that the coveted Federal registration symbol ® could be used in future marketing to establish credibility, ownership and standing.The USPTO ruled the name THE TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE PODCAST had to be disclaimed “because

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The 1000 Trademark Challenge. BEST WAY TO GET A TRADEMARK SINCE 1992

If you are receiving this email, then undoubtedly you have seen our $1000 Trademark Challenge. Probably too many times, as we tend to do. (We are experts at trademarks, not marketing after all.) Here’s a refresher of our 2009 “art”: $1000 Trademark Challenge – Best Since 1992. We want you to compare trademark services carefully.

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Oct 22 25 – Stay away from what the USPTO calls illegitimate trademark mills

Stay away from what the USPTO calls “illegitimate trademark mills” when trademarking your business name, slogan or logo. Call today for a free expert trademark consultation. You may know I was able to talk to David Gooder, the USPTO Commissioner as well as key training staff members Jason Lott and Craig Morris over the last

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More and more people have confusing ideas about trademarks

Hello Client, recently I have noticed more and more people have confusing ideas about trademarks and the trademark process. It really isn’t that hard once you understand the basics. Trademarks are company and product names, logos and slogans. They are way broader in coverage than a domain name search, a corporate name search or a

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DO NOT let competitors STEAL your chance to get a TM Get Cannabis State TM

Hello Possible Client, preserve your first use common law rightsby getting a trademark to fully own your product or servicename, logo or slogan for cannabis. Competitors can and will trademark ontop of your first use common law rights merely on the gambleyou will not spent $5,000 – $10,000 to retain an attorney toargue, send a

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DO NOT let competitors GOBBLE up your chance to get a trademark 112021.pdf

Dear Client, preserve your first use common law rights by getting a trademark to fully own your product or service name, logo or slogan. Competitors can and will trademark on top of your first use common law rights merely on the gamble you will not spent $5,000 – $10,000 to retain an attorney to argue,

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