NanoViricides Inc. (NNVC)

[loanranger]

"..NNVC never registered, nor could have registered, the "Herpecide" trademark.."

The former is definitely true...NNVC never registered the mark "Herpecide". My recollection is that someone else registered it, or a similar mark, and that it was assigned and was later abandoned, but NNVC never applied to register anything starting with an "H" and ending in "cide".

This is true in the singular:
"The trademark issue of relevance is that NNVC allowed all of their "Nanoviricides" trademarks to die last in Nov 2016, rather than pay the few hundred bucks to renew them"
Only one version of NANOVIRICIDES was registered and it was allowed to expire in Nov 2016. I never looked at the other two versions...they didn't result in an approved mark so there was no need.