Request USPTO Investigation and Action Regarding Trademark Scams

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   Name: William R. Graefe, Esq. on Feb 22, 2012

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   Name: Heather Balmat on Feb 22, 2012

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   Name: Jessica R. Friedman on Feb 22, 2012

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   Name: Michael J. Hughes on Feb 22, 2012

   Comments: This is reaching epidemic proportions with online and mail solicitations being very frequent. Combined with the degration of trademark integirity caused by marginal or completely unqualified entities holding themselves out as trademark practitioners (and regularly soliciting via email and internet), the legitimate trademark bar is being significantly harmed.

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   Name: Michael Bosworth on Feb 22, 2012

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   Name: Anne Gundelfinger on Feb 22, 2012

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   Name: Lara Pearson on Feb 22, 2012

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   Name: R. Scott Keller on Feb 22, 2012

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   Name: Patrick Fleis on Feb 22, 2012

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    Name: Anonymous on Feb 22, 2012

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    Name: Michael Brown on Feb 22, 2012

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    Name: Hillary J. Wucherer on Feb 22, 2012

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    Name: Donald L. Beeson on Feb 22, 2012

    Comments: Thanks for doing this. These scam notices are quickly multiplying and are causing confusion among our clients and are a headache for our firm. Our client's are learning to recognize the scams. The unsophisticated trademark owners are the ones most at risk. Don Beeson Beeson Skinner Beverly, LLP

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    Name: Heather Bond Vargas on Feb 23, 2012

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    Name: Stephen M. Nipper on Feb 23, 2012

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    Name: Garry Hays on Feb 23, 2012

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    Name: Sandy Burchett on Feb 23, 2012

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    Name: Renee Sirulnik on Feb 23, 2012

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    Name: Anonymous on Feb 23, 2012

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    Name: Matt Kitces on Feb 23, 2012

    Comments: A good number of scams also come from shady domain name registrars, especially in foreign countries. They'll use the USPTO database to find trademark owners and scare them into buying up foreign domain names by telling them that a foreign country is about to buy up their trademarked name in that country. Unfortunately, this type of action may be difficult for the USPTO to address.

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    Name: Perry Chappano on Feb 23, 2012

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    Name: Michael R. Graham on Feb 23, 2012

    Comments: While we acknowledge and support the USPTO's "Warning to USPTO Customers: Trademark Monitoring and Document Filing Companies", since few of the victims of these trademark renewal scams frequent or even know of the USPTO site, some additional action, public awareness campaign, or trademark applicant warning seems called for. My interest in subscribing to this petition is not to limit or prevent competition in the trademark services marketplace, but to help protect trademark owners from loss of rights, overpayment, or faulty expectations elicited by these scams.

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    Name: Mark L. Donahey on Feb 23, 2012

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    Name: Thomas J Hoffmann on Feb 23, 2012

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    Name: William A. Finkelstein on Feb 24, 2012

    Comments: This is my individual view, not necessarily that of my law firm.

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    Name: Alex Butterman on Feb 24, 2012

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    Name: Anonymous Facebook user on Feb 24, 2012

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    Name: Owen Smigelski on Feb 24, 2012

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    Name: Marta Randall on Feb 24, 2012

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    Name: Monica J. Foster on Feb 24, 2012

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    Name: Patricia Kane Williams on Feb 27, 2012

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    Name: Jennifer L. Lefere on Feb 27, 2012

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    Name: Cindy Brown on Feb 27, 2012

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    Name: Barbara Friedman on Feb 27, 2012

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    Name: Charles Alvis on Feb 28, 2012

    Comments: As a trademark holder I am finding the glut of letters that I receive rather annoying. It's obvious that the marketing tactics of such companies employ deceit and deception. Fortunately I have not fallen victim, but I can see how easy it would to do so.

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    Name: Cynthia P. Gardiner on Feb 28, 2012

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    Name: Shizuka Bernstein on Feb 29, 2012

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    Name: Robin Dimiceli on Feb 29, 2012

    Comments: Stop the Scams!! Filing and obtaining trademark approval is difficult enough. Those companies trying to trick innocent people into paying them for nothing should be illegal!

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    Name: Roger Versteeg on Feb 29, 2012

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    Name: Anonymous on Feb 29, 2012

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    Name: Anonymous on Mar 1, 2012

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    Name: David Lizerbram on Mar 2, 2012

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    Name: Ellen Steifler on Mar 5, 2012

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    Name: Gary Moonan on Mar 5, 2012

    Comments: As a consumer and business owner, I frequently receive intentionally misleading offers from vendors seeking to provide services. These offers result in loss of ownership of intellectual property and/or trademarks that are essential to my business. These vendors represent themselves as an official US government agency or as an existing service provider. There should be a protection and recourse for those who mistakenly sign up. A number of my customers have been victims and recovering is expensive and time consuming. Misleading and misrepresentation must have a greater price for those actively deceiving honest hard working people.

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    Name: Samantha Rothaus on Mar 5, 2012

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    Name: Sarah A. Durmus on Mar 6, 2012

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    Name: Microsoft OEM Software on Mar 7, 2012

    Comments: JS9idD Awesome article post.Thanks Again. Fantastic.

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    Name: Diane Duhaime on Mar 13, 2012

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    Name: Luke Skelton on Mar 20, 2012

    Comments: Not knowing any better, I paid the $375 processing fee that is charged by US Trademark Registration Office. Since we are currently filing a trademark, and the bill looked authentic, I did not hesitate to pay it. I then contacted my attorney, and she informed me that we will not get any bills from the trademark office. It was too late. We received a second bill a few days ago for $790, which I almost paid as well. It is only because I am expecting bills that need to be paid to the US tradmark offices that I would ever pay such a bill. These people are exploiting the official US trademark offices to fraudulently pretend to be the same organization, even indicating in their bill that our registration (implying trademark) will be cancelled if we don't act. They are purposely misleading and encouraging the TM applicants to respond and pay out of fear. It is unbelievable that this is allowed. They need to be stopped.

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    Name: Wholesale Men Clothing on Mar 20, 2012

    Comments: Wow, great blog post.Really thank you! Want more.

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