Speci-Manual™

A basic overview of what a specimen is, including answers to beginner practitioner questions such as:

-What is a specimen?
-When do specimens need to be submitted?
-What if there are various goods and services within one class?

Frequently asked questions plus simple script answers to the most common client questions such as:
- “What do you mean by ‘specimen’?
- “Will this design file from our graphics guy work?”
- “We use the mark in the text of this paragraph- will that work?”
- “Can my specimen be from a third-party website?”
- “My website doesn’t list the services I offer, so what should I use?”
- “Here’s an invoice showing my first sale!”
- “The wording/design is a little different than how the mark was originally filed, is that okay?”

Sample description of specimen for filings;

Frequent refusals of specimens by the USPTO;

Examples of refused specimens;

Examples of accepted specimens for each class of goods/services;

And lots more! 

Sonia Lakhany