we believe the uspto must do more. asked the committee to consider the following concept to strengthen the nation's practices. first modernize the uspto for reviewing fraudulent and applications. uspto should create a specialized to more effectively look at applications. develop a more stringent review. seconds. give the uspto the flexibility and timeline. today in the u.s. pta has allowed applicants six months time to finish their work. shortening the time to respond or bring issues resolution. third period allow a third party to object during pending applications. today a third party has no effective evidence of bad faith or challenging pending applications or for that matter issue registration. these remedies need to be improved or new solutions developed to allow the third party to raise challenges with the application and registration. the avenues could become a viable means for the third party. thank you again for providing me the opportunity. i want to continue working with you as you develop policies to address

in fact, we heard from the uspto and outside counsel, they're trying to circumvent the rule. there's an email floating around from a foreign applicant asking to use attorneys' credentials to file trademark applications. uspto communicated to us that legitimate attorney credentials are used without their permission. finally, we're seeing either unscrupulous or unknowing u.s. attorneys to continue to file these fraudulent trademark applications on behalf of their clients, so we think the problem is going to continue and even if it were to stop the problem, it doesn't deal with the actual clutter already on the register. the tens of thousands of marks, the 1,200% increase we've seen over the last couple years. >> i may submit some questions for answer in writing. thank you for your courtesy. >> mr. chairman -- >> thank you. let me make sure, i may have missed this previously, forgive me if i did. for your clients and just for the average person who may be watching this, what's the cost to file versus the cost to successfully challenge all the way through? so if you got a small b