Category: Abandoned Applications

Of the 51 design applications abandoned October 12 to 18, 2026 after a rejection, only 5 applicants ever replied. Sibling Hague registrations were rejected over each other, three files died on rejections a terminal disclaimer would have cured, a grace-period disclosure went unclaimed, and one allowance was pulled back after

Of the 21 design applications abandoned September 14 to 20, 2026 after a rejection, most were lost on the drawings, not the prior art. Three Hague designs the examiner had cleared on the art were let go over fixable drawing defects, an applicant’s own Amazon listing inside the grace period