If not perjury, then negligence. I ran into Let's Encrypt without looking for it. It kept popping up in the tech news section over the past year. Maybe lawyers

If not perjury, then negligence. I ran into Let's Encrypt without looking for it. It kept popping up in the tech news section over the past year. Maybe lawyers don't peruse the tech news, not even tech lawyers. Well, the lawyer's client most likely does. And really, the lawyer is just filing the request on the client's behalf. Besides it doesn't matter. A simple web search would have turned up Let's Encrypt. Not doing a simple web search before filing a trademark request is negligence.