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<p>Hello Colleagues. I am looking for one or more volunteer editors
for the transcript of Thursday's oral argument for <i>In Re
Chestek PLLC</i>, appeal number 22-1843.</p>
<p>You can download the audio recording of the oral argument here:
<a href="https://www.oplf.com/cle/20231207-oral-argument.mp3"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.oplf.com/cle/20231207-oral-argument.mp3</a>
. To download the file, right-click on the link. Or you can
simply click on the link and you can probably listen to the
recording on your computer or phone or tablet. The recording is
about 30 minutes in duration.</p>
<p>The judges on this panel were:</p>
<ul>
<li>Judge Alan D. Lourie (older male voice)</li>
<li>Judge Raymond T. Chen (slightly younger and sometimes slightly
stronger male voice)</li>
<li>Judge Kara F. Stoll (female voice)</li>
</ul>
<p>Unfortunately the recording system in the courtroom did a poor
job of picking up the voices of the three judges. So those voices
are rather faint in the recording. A person might need to listen
to each of these portions multiple times to arrive at some
confidence as to what exactly each judge said.<br>
</p>
<p>The only voices that came through strongly were the voices at the
lectern. The two speakers at the lectern were:</p>
<ul>
<li>Andrew Grossman (male voice)</li>
<li>Mary Beth Walker (female voice)</li>
</ul>
<p>I have obtained a transcription of the recording, and it is
attached. (It is attached as an OpenDocument file and as a
Microsoft Word file.) Of course the transcript was prepared by
someone who is not familiar with the terminology. So it is filled
with wrong words at various points, which of course need
correcting, and some things that were unintelligible for the
transcriber might nonetheless be intelligible for someone familiar
with the terminology.<br>
</p>
<p>I would be very grateful if some member of the listserv would be
willing to volunteer to clean up the transcript, based upon
repeated careful listening to the recording.</p>
<ul>
<li>My best guess is that Speaker 1 is most often Judge Lourie.</li>
<li>My best guess is that Speaker 3 is Judge Stoll. Another way
to say this is that whenever we hear a faint female voice, it is
likely to be Judge Stoll.</li>
<li>
My best guess is that Speaker 4 is most often Judge Chen.</li>
</ul>
<p>Speaker 5 is Mary Beth Walker for the USPTO (female voice at the
lectern).<br>
</p>
<p>I will make a guess that Speaker 2 is the same as either speaker
1 or speaker 4. My recollection of the hearing is that Judge
Lourie did not speak very often, mostly just at the beginning and
end of each segment of the oral argument. If this aspect of my
recollection is accurate, then most often when we hear a faint
male voice it would most likely be Judge Chen.<br>
</p>
<p>The goal would be to edit the word processor file so that it is
as accurate as possible a transcript of the recording.</p>
<p>I suppose if two people each try to clean this up, then I could
do a file comparison between the two cleaned-up files and this
would permit a fairly confident feeling about the overall result.<br>
</p>
<p>Carl<br>
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