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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(102, 102, 153);"><b>Janet F. Satterthwaite</b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(128, 128, 128);">|</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Partner/ Chair, Trademark
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 11, 2023 4:37 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [E-trademarks] USPTO employee locator maze</font>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I don’t have a need to contact managing attorneys of TM law offices often. Today I needed to find such info to call a managing attorney.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I couldn’t find a link to the USPTO employee locator from MyUSPTO to save my life. Just couldn’t, I tried and tried. It used to be easy. I figured I was too dumb for
this new portal and need to seek assistance. </span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I called the number for the Trademark Office assistance center. Pressed the number to talk to customer service. The guy who answered listened to my question and said
that he needed to transfer me to the Trademark Assistance Center. Well, that’s the number I called in the first place, but whatever. I got transferred, presumably, to the trademark assistance center, pressed the number for live assistance. Another rep asked
for my name, asked to spell my last name, asked for my phone and email (I declined, am I supposed to spell my email on the phone?). I asked how I can find an employee locator in MyUSPTO account as I am trying to locate the name and phone number of the managing
attorney of Law Office XXX.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The rep happily told me the name and number of the managing attorney I was looking for. When I asked where this info was in the new MyUSPTO account, the rep said she
didn’t know that, but I can always call and ask. Good to know.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I called the number, the message said that this was such and such for a different law office, but if I called to reach the managing attorney for Law Office XXX, then
the name and phone were different. I wrote down yet another name and phone and finally was able to reach the correct managing attorney’s number. No one answered, as expected, I left a message.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I logged out of MyUSPTO and went to the old link through the USPTO.gov portal employee search, <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__portal.uspto.gov_EmployeeSearch_&d=DwMFAg&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=BD_ODyCnGyM4QYkJS4ogIYzIigAHSpBLLoEgzCd9OOE&m=RDaaX-_E-AvkXHEj7Np_occjiwydruP7WR9qBAFZ_ed-MCIQqA_NbOEgHTv5Fqtk&s=utd2aVZ2Y5XvgKcQV053l11ZeKrRsxB6teH5_lAHo04&e=">https://portal.uspto.gov/EmployeeSearch/</a>,
the link worked and I pulled up all the employees of Law Office XXX I needed. The thing is – now it is just a list without any indication who the managing attorney is. If I didn’t call and spent at least so many minutes on the phone with the USPTO, I wouldn’t
be able to tell from the employee search via the portal.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Is there a simpler way to look up a managing attorney of a law office? Either from MyUSPTO or using any other minimally reasonable way??</span></b></p>
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