We have noticed an uptick in the number of emails clients send to us, which are Spam, Scams or Misleading. They are rightfully concerned that these notices are real or that they are about to lose trademark rights or have missed a deadline. At no cost to you, we will be happy to review these for you and let you know if they are legitimate. Again, there is no charge for us to review these notices. We are happy to do our part to keep you out of trouble.
All official correspondence about your trademark registration will be sent to your Attorney of Record or directly to you as the Owner if you are not represented by an Attorney and will be from the “United States Patent and Trademark Office” in Alexandria, Virginia, and all emails will be from the domain “@uspto.gov.” Visit the USPTO misleading notices webpage for more information. We suggest that you keep an eye out for the common scams listed below:
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- Spoofing phone numbers
- Email from imposters
- Fraudulent or misleading solicitations
- False change of email address
- Wrongful appointment of attorney
- Fake owner addresses on applications
- Fraudulent specimens
- Illegitimate signatures on submissions
- Falsifying goods or services in applications
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You can learn more about this at the USPTO misleading notices webpage linked above.