publisher just picked up a project that appears to be just a normal platformer game and let the trademark of his company expire a year ago. bankruptcyarcletsgoooo
Here is a summary of the situation, because I know a thing or two about how to navigate in these things.
I will be referring to the documents that can be found in the 'DOCUMENTS' section of the webpages.
First 'Critical Bliss' trademark – abandonned
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This trademark was
never registered, as the applicant (Lewd Media LLC) did not reply to the examiner's objections. This objection can be checked in the 'DOCUMENTS' section of the webpage.
Let's have a quick look at the objection, which is the first and only one the examiner sent.
The examiner objected that the applicant had filed no proof that "the applied-for mark" is "actually used in commerce for each international class of goods identified in the application", and that either such proof had to be filed or that the class of goods and services of the trademark had to be amended.
CB had preemptively filed as alleged proof in their initial application a screenshot of
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("Specimen" document, dated Apr. 22, 2023). This did not convince the examiner.
The application became abandonned on Apr. 29, 2024. The 2-month deadline to revive the application has long expired (and so has the deadline for reinstatement), so no revival is possible. This trademark application is completely dead.
It must also be noted that no trademark attorney was linked to this trademark, so Lewd Media LLC filed the trademark application themselves and likely had to deal with everything themselves.
Second and third 'Critical Bliss' trademarks – pending
The 'Critical Bliss' tradermark has been re-filled with two trademark applications,
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(filed 18 July 2024) and
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(filed 21 March 2025).
None of these two trademarks have been registered so far, as the examiner has, here also, raised some non-final objections that still need to be solved.
These two trademarks are represented by the IP cabinet
legalipexperts.com, so CB has the support of trademark professionals to advise them, remind them of upcoming deadlines, etc. (these cabinets are financially expensive).
Here again, for the two cases, the applicant had preemptively filed alleged proof of use, but this time they only provided the URL of their Steam publisher page (no screenshot), see "Application" document in its section 'Goods and services'.
And also here again, the examiner made the same remark as before in his objections. For the semi-figurative version, they have also requested that the description of the logo be amended to be more factual.
It must be noted that all three trademark applications have all been reviewed by three different examiners.
CB failed to reply to the examiner for the word trademark application, thus the application was abandonned, but it was then revived one month later due to a successful petition to continue processing (they argued that "Applicant has firsthand knowledge that the failure to respond to the Office Action by the specified deadline was unintentional. The signatory did not receive the Office action prior to the expiration of the response period", see "TEAS Petition to Revive Abandon Applic" dated Jun. 25, 2025).
CB has until 28 September 2025 to reply to the examiner's objection for the word version.
CB has until the 27 November 2025 to reply to the examiner for the semi-figurative version.
Also of note, while the first trademark was filed under the ownership of the company Lewd Media LLC, the two new ones are filed under the ownership of the natural person Ryan Javan Caldwell.
The other difference is that the newly-filed trademark applications have the same list of goods and services but do not mention "Downloadable video game software" in their lists; this was likely done to remove the redundancy with the "Downloadable video game programs" they already had in these lists.