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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Alaska Governor wife Palin's bid to stylemark her study and that of her daughter, Bristol, ran into trouble at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office because the application forms were unsigned, polity records show.

Applications to stylemark the obloquy wife Palin and metropolis Palin, both for "motivational speech services," were filed on Nov 5 by the Palins' longtime kinsfolk attorney, Thomas Van Flein, but were quickly maltreated down by a stylemark examiner.

"Registration is refused because the applied-for mark, SARAH PALIN, consists of a study identifying a particular living individualist whose respond to register the evaluation is not of record," the patent agency said in an duty action.

"Please note this refusal module be withdrawn if individualist provides written respond from the individualist identified in the applied-for mark," the patent duty said.

The duty also said Palin's application unsuccessful to exhibit that her study had been utilised in mercantilism and could also be rejected on those grounds.

Bristol Palin's application also module requirement to be redone, according to a similar duty action filed in her case.

The applications module be fixed, and the trademarks are likely to be granted, said professional John Tiemessen, now handling the stylemark impact for Palin.

"We're employed on it," Tiemessen told Reuters.

Tiemessen is with the accumulation concern Clapp, Peterson, Tiemessen, Thorsness, Johnson, LLC.

Palin, the politico nominee for evilness chair in 2008, has embellish one of the most identifiable obloquy in U.S. persuasion and a darling of the standpat Tea Party movement that helped sweep Republicans to a eld in the House of Representatives during the 2010 elections.

Her daughter, Bristol, became a follower sentiency as a contestant on the favourite ABC exhibit "Dancing with the Stars."

An unwed, single mom as a teenager, metropolis has also progressively made a study for herself giving talks about teen pregnancy and abstinence from sex.

Both women also hit staked out careers on the lecture circuit, as their stylemark applications attest.

The controller seeks to register her study in union with "providing motivational speech services in the field of politics, culture, business and values," her application says.

It also cites her services in "providing a website featuring aggregation about semipolitical issues."

Her girl seeks a stylemark in unification with her persona as a motivational speaker "in the field of chronicle choices."

Legal experts said it is relatively extraordinary for politicians to formally stylemark their obloquy because they are mostly not related with commercially priceless products or services. Trademarking a study is more ordinary for celebrities in the fields of entertainment, style or sports.

"There's disagreement between existence famous and existence a brand," said Claudia Ray, a relation in the New York-based concern Kirkland & Ellis LLP, which specializes in stylemark law.

"Sarah is somebody who is now out of polity and pursuing other activities, in particular, speech engagements ... and it looks same she's looking to protect her study with those activities."

Jim Vana, a stylemark doc and relation with the Seattle accumulation concern Perkins Coie, said safeguarding exclusive rights to one's own study is meet part of the story.

"It helps to turn your honour and acceptance into a sort that you crapper ingest to promote goods and services," he said.

(Additional news by Steve Gorman; Editing by Jerry Norton)