4, Not On The USPTO Website,

[rhr]

Some of the trademarks have been so poorly scanned that they are almost unreadable, but there's a worse fate for some of them. Their mark of distinction, or rather shame, is that they were either incompletely scanned, or not scanned at all. At the time of this writing, trademark no. 957, one of the ones I mentioned in the previous thread in this series, is not in the USPTO trademarks website at all. And all the trademarks between 54,810, Eagle Pencil Co., "Lead-Pencils", July 31, 1906, and 56,338, Perry & Co., "Pens", Sept 11, 1906, have no trademark images on the USPTO website. Only the text pages were scanned and placed online. And again, all the trademarks between 77,225, Eagle Pencil Co., "Metallic Pens", Mar 22, 1910, and 78,089, The Firm J. W. Guttknecht, "Pencils And Rubber Erasers", May 31, 1910, a company owned by Alexander von Faber-Castell, have only text pages on the USPTO website. As well, there are others that have only the image pages and no text pages, such as all the Carter's trademarks cited in an earlier thread in this series. And lastly, the whole block of trademarks between 147,124 and 152,601 isn't there at all, including the Wahl Co.'s trademark no. 147,712 from Oct 25, 1921, which is why I didn't find it in time to include it in Volume 2. The only reason I know it is registered on that date is because it is mentioned in another Wahl Co. trademark from 1932. Registration certificate no. 163,481, Parker's trademark for the Duofold pen color scheme, is another one not on the USPTO website, but I'll write more about it later in this series. I didn't hyperlink the above trademarks because there's nothing much to see. ;~)

 

George Kovalenko.

 

[RLTodd]

Maybe they lapsed.

 

To save money the USPTO may have decided not to forgo recording the image.

 

Maybe they are behind.

 

Maybe they scan the ones that images are most requested for first.

 

Maybe they lost the original image.

 

Maybe they are behind in their work.

 

etc.......

[rhr]

Maybe they lapsed....

I think it's your first suggestion. They simply made mistakes. Also, if they were scanned at the same time as the patents and designs, then they were done in the mid-to-late-1990s when the technology still wasn't the best, and the workmanship wasn't much better.

 

George Kovalenko.