Law Office L20·Active·Examining since 2016
Sara A. Helmers
Specialist · CannabisLawful-use / CSA inquiry leads in 13 of 26 read office actionsPart of the 20-examiner group that examined 40% of cannabis-named filings since 2014 · 2% of all filingsPublic USPTO records · verified Aug 2026Measured from this docket's public record, not a USPTO designation.4,213 applications analyzed
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Sara Helmers is a USPTO trademark examining attorney in Law Office L20.
Tagged in CrystalMark's specialist research: Cannabis. The tag is measured from the public record; the USPTO has no specialist units on paper.
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How every figure is computed →Substantive refusal
Escalates to Final
Withdrawn when contested
Difficulty
How hard a refusal is to overcome here, ranked against the active corps.
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Refusal groundsIndependent rates, don't sum to 100%
§2(d) confusion
Descriptive, surname & geo §2(e)
Other substantive
Filing → first office actionMedian · last 2 yrs · mostly queue time
Examiner's amendmentsShare of interventions where an amendment could work · last 2 yrs
Refusal rate by classColored vs the corps in the same class
ClassRefusal§2(d)§2(e)Other
Refusal rate by yearSubstantive refusals · per-year n · last 5 complete years
Fine print · complements & timing
Complements & allowanceContext figures.
Clean approvalNever went Final
Publication rateShare reaching publication, context only
Timing · fine printTiming is queue-bound, not examiner behavior · full record
Filing → first OAMedian · "when will we hear?"
TurnaroundMedian, response → next action
OA roundsAverage per refused app
First OA → publicationMedian
Filing → publicationMedian · "when will my mark be approved?"
Identity facts above are public record. The blurred figures are placeholders, identical on every profile and never this examiner's data; the real record behind them is computed from n=4,213 applications and published to subscribers.
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