It took more than two years (and two rounds of applications) to get to trademark land for various reasons. I applied without a lawyer and missed a couple of things the first time that resulted in office actions. While they were certainly addressable and resolvable, at the time, it just wasn’t something I could put time, energy, or money into. So I let the application lapse and become abandoned.
On Scams
Side note for a minute, if you’re thinking about applying for a trademark (or are waiting for yours to get approved), know that much of your application is public. That means you’ll get lots of spammy (sometimes predatory even) communications offering legal services and threatening action or that someone else is trying to register the same thing and that you have 24 hours to respond or they’ll have to proceed with the other application. Don’t fall for these, no matter how convincing some of them are. Official communications will come from email addresses ending in uspto.gov.
In Other News => Closer to Launch
And, we’re also super stoked about our upcoming proof-of-concept partnership with Jonas Bull at PREDICTif Solutions, thanks to Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Funding.
Menopausey was recently selected as a pitch finalist through PREDICTif’s AI pitch series with Colorado SBDC and AWS and that means no-cost development services for us. It’s also a great opportunity to further benefit from Menopausey’s membership in the Activate program through AWS Startups. As a bootstrapped, solo-founder company, this is all HUGE.
The engagement will help us take our perimenopause and menopause conversational AI to the next level, which gets us closer to launch.
The groundswell of support from across rural Colorado and beyond almost has me (Menopausey’s Founder, Becca Williams) a little teary.
Hugs,
Menopausey
