A client recently received this scam in the mail just three weeks after submitting their USPTO trademark application. The scam from TM-REGISTER (with an address in Washington, DC) is for a worthless “publication” of the trademark with a cost of $1,375. The value of this publication is $0.
If you got this letter from TM-REGISTER, trash it. Or better yet report them to the USPTO, the FTC, and for mail fraud and scamming at the US Postal Inspection Service at https://www.uspis.gov/report.
It seems to me that this offer clear evidence of an intent to mislead and defraud consumers who own trademark filings with the USPTO. When will the USPTO, Trademark Public Advisory Committee (TPAC), Fair Trade Commission (FTC), Department of Justice (DoJ), and U.S. Postal Service (USPS) ramp up any investigations and crack downs on these scams. Of course it is not easy to track the catch those behind these offerings, but is enough being done? Not in my opinion.
