First Madrid Protocol Application published

Today, for the first time, a Request for Extension of Protection into the United States was published in the Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark office. Here is the publication.

You will note that the word "attorney" is misspelled.

This publication may be recognized chiefly from the serial number which is in series code 79. There is also a mention of the international registration number.

Interestingly, this was not one of the Madrid Protocol applications or subsequent designations filed shortly after November 2, 2003 (the date the US joined the Protocol). This one was not filed until February 19, 2004.

The applicant filed the Madrid Protocol application on November 12, 2002, at a time when the US did not yet belong to the Protocol. The original application listed four trademark classes. The applicant filed a subsequent designation to the US on February 19, 2004, and in this designation limited the goods to two of the previous four trademark classes.

You can see the TARR report for this application. Most Madrid Protocol applications, like most trademark applications generally, take six or seven months to get assigned to an Examining Attorney. For reasons that are not clear from the TARR report, this one got assigned to an Examining Attorney far sooner, in a mere six weeks.

During prosection the identification was narrowed substantially, and the application was approved for publication September 6, 2004.

Twenty-two more Madrid Protocol applications will be published a week from today, and thirteen more will be published the week after that.

None of these thirty-six applications has color in the mark.

To join the Madrid Protocol list server, see instructions at www.oppedahl.com/madrid.

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