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Trademark examiner
A trademark examiner is an attorney employed by a government entity such as the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to determine whether an applicant should be permitted to receive a trademark registration, thus affording legal protection to the applicant's trademark.〔(Attorney Trademark Examiner, definition )〕 The job of a trademark examiner is thus to examine marks applied for to determine if they run afoul of any prohibitions on registration, such as infringing upon an existing registration of the same mark, or constituting the generic name of the goods with which the mark is associated.〔(IP Australia (Australian Patent and Trademark agency) job description for trademark examiner )〕〔(Report on 2011 EU-China Trademark Examiner Seminar )〕
==In the United States==
The USPTO employs several hundred trademark examiners at any given time, although the number fluctuates with the strength of the economy, which influences how many new trademark filings are being submitted.〔(U.S. Patent and Trademark Office careers, Trademark Examiners )〕 These employees are evaluated by a point system, based on the number of applications that they address and dispose of, either by permitting them to go forward to registration, or denying registration in an office action, and seeing this denial through any appeals taken within the USPTO. Some USPTO trademark examiners work in the USPTO building in Alexandria, Virginia, but a majority telework full time.
In 2011, proposed budget cuts of $100 million to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office budget of slightly over $2 billion were reported to not have any impact on the size of the Trademark staff.〔(USPTO to Face Budget Cuts )〕 However, all hiring in 2011 at the USPTO was frozen.
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