Research
Field notes from the examiner record.
Rigorous, attorney-native data stories on how USPTO trademark examiners actually behave — drawn entirely from the public record, checked against every artifact we could find, and written for the docket, not the dataset.
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Published research
No. 02
The Dilution Flood
A few examiners' refusal rates cratered for a year with no change in behavior — the cause was a foreign pro-se requirement flood, not the examiner. Read ~10% as-measured versus ~45% corrected.
ReadNo. 01
The Maintenance Cliff
Examiners fold roughly 30% more on response than they did in 2019 — the fleet maintenance rate fell from 44% in 2018–20 to 31%in 2023–25.
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Research No. 03 · Coming soon
Filing a TTAB appeal makes the examiner back down ~63% of the time. The Board itself reverses just 2%.
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