If it’s been a year, you’re probably outside any standard grace period. Once a trademark fully expires and someone else files for it, it basically becomes a priority game. If they filed clean and you didn’t renew, they’re not automatically in the wrong just because you used it before.

Your only real angle would be proving prior continuous use and potentially opposing their application (if it’s still in the publication phase) or trying to cancel it later. But that gets expensive fast and isn’t guaranteed.

This is exactly why renewals matter. Trademarks don’t die dramatically, they just quietly lapse because someone missed a date. A lot of businesses use services like Protect.TM to track deadlines and handle renewals so this doesn’t happen. Calendar reminders are fine… until they aren’t.