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View Poll Results: I'm interested in a trip to Vegas Late May or Early June
Yes, and I'm flexible 21 50.00%
Yes, but it has to be... (please specify) 2 4.76%
Sort of, but another time of year works better (please specify) 8 19.05%
No, I'm not interested in a trip to Vegas 11 26.19%
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Old 08-29-2007, 02:57 PM
Platonic Platonic is offline
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Default Trade Mark Issues

Hello twoplustwo,

My business has recently encountered a problem. We have been operating for 2 years and we just now received our response from the trademark offices (Don't ask why this took two years, I will just tilt). Our trademark has been rejected because of a possible conflict with a trademark owned by another company. The lawyer who filed my trademark for me (for like $150 fee + the $300 gov fee), somehow believes that this company no longer uses the trademark (mentioned something about the SEC) and suggests we request the company to officially abandon the trademark with the threat of a cancellation proceeding. My question to two plus two is, how does this lawyer have any clue as to whether or not they are using the trademark? Also, he is asking for $900 if we continue on to a cancellation proceeding, is this a normal price? I understand $300 of this is a gov fee. My business is very small, and while $900 won't make or break us its certainly inconvenient to pay, especially if its just on some hunch that they don't use the trademark anymore. How can I get more information?


Thanks twoplustwo,
Platonic
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Old 08-29-2007, 04:18 PM
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Default Re: Trade Mark Issues

Ask him how he knows they aren't using it anymore.
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Old 08-29-2007, 06:23 PM
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Default Re: Trade Mark Issues

Google the trademarked name you want to investigate

after that try superpages
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Old 08-30-2007, 03:55 AM
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Google the trademarked name you want to investigate

after that try superpages

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Can't find anything online that would indicate they use the mark...
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