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Thank you for posting the G3 comments from the Trademark Assistance Unit.</div>
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In the old days of TESS, when we introduced a new field, we would have to rebuild the entire search database in parallel with the existing search database until we were confident that the new database was ready to replace the previous version. </div>
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Now consider the following search results.</div>
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<div style="white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">UD:[* TO 20231105]</span></div>
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<div style="white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">UD:[* TO 20231106]</span></div>
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database prior to November 6th. With </span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">additional updates, the
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">newer version of the search database eventually
<i>matched</i> the prior version, and the switch to the new version could be performed without users noticing that anything had changed (aside from someone like me eventually observing that no updates to the database occurred prior to November 6th).</span></div>
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Happy Trademarking,</div>
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Ken Boone</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>From:</b> E-trademarks <e-trademarks-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com> on behalf of Owen Bates via E-trademarks <e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 12, 2024 2:51 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com <e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Owen Bates <ojbates@earthlink.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [E-trademarks] Trademark Search Field G3</span>
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<span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">I had sent an email to the Trademark Assistance Unit about the</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">search field GS3. Below is the response they sent.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><i>Thank you for contacting the TEAS support staff regarding this TM Search question.</i></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><i>Some search fields were created for testing purposes or are still under development.</i></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><i>We recommend you stick with the documented (in the help document) fields until</i></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><i>we add the new fields to the documentation. We can’t promise that undocumented</i></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><i>fields will work appropriately in all circumstances.</i></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: serif;">Even if the search field is undocumented, it would have been helpful to know what was the intended scope</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: serif;">of the GS3 search field.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1; margin: 0.1rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Owen Bates</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; margin: 0.1rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Law Office of Owen Bates</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; margin: 0.1rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">USPTO Reg. No. 40,346</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; margin: 0.1rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">ojbates@SVPatentLaw.com</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; margin: 0.1rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">650-248-5974 iPhone</span></p>
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