Fraudulent Trademark Solicitations
  There are many companies out there soliciting trademark owners. They obtain information about your trademarks from the various different databases and then send solicitations and offers. Most of these are fraudulent solicitations and should be discarded. If you receive any solicitations requesting the payment of money from anyone other than this office, it can be discarded. For some examples, see the links below.  
  Company for Publications and Information  
  iSupport.net Domain Name Solicitation  
  United States Trademark Protection Agency  
  Canadian Solicitation  
  Internet Trademark Registry  
  International Data Medium Registration Version 1 International Data Medium Registration Version 2  
  Patent Trademark Register - Register of International Patents  
  Trademark Monitoring Service  
  United States Trademark Renewal Service  
  United States Trademark Service  
     
  The problem of fraudulent solicitations has become so pervasive, that the Madrid System for the International Registration of Marks publishes the following cautionary notice on its website:  
   
     
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