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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">I encountered an unexpected error with trademark search. Here's what I did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">From the online help, I selected Advanced, then Search Fields, then scrolled down to the SA - Status field. I copied to the clipboard the text provided for that search field, namely the following.</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">Contains a status such as registered, "published for opposition”, or “new application”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">I then pasted the two quoted strings to the search box and performed edits to construct a valid search of those two phrases. Here's the search I submitted.</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">SA:("published for opposition</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">“</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">new
application</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">)
AND LD:true </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">When submitted, I got the following error message:</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(134, 17, 6);">Error: Lexical error at line 1, column 63. Encountered: <EOF> after : "\"published for
opposition\u201d \u201cnew application\u201d) AND LD:true"</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">I then simplified the search to two distinct searches, namely</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">SA:("published for opposition</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">
) AND LD:true </span></div>
<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">SA:(
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">“</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">new
application</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">)
AND LD:true </span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">where then first variation with just the
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"published for opposition</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">phrase
failed with the error</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(134, 17, 6);">Lexical error at line 1, column 47. Encountered: <EOF> after : "\"published for opposition\u201d ) AND LD:true "</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">but the second variation with the
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">“</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">new
application</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"> phrase
successfully completed, returning 395,051 hits.</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">Notice the difference? Apparently, the new trademark search system does NOT like mixing
the curly quotation characters </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“ or</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">”
with the <i>standard quotation character </i>" as included the initial search and the first variation, but the second variation with matching curly quotes successfully completed. </span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jumping to the USPTO's standard character list, I
see the following quote characters (in case anyone found this interesting and is curious enough to try other
<i>quotation</i> variations for trademark search, though I may have missed relevant standard characters).</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">(double) quotation mark</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">low left rising single quote</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">132</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">left single angle quote mark</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">left single quotation mark,</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">right single quote mark</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">left double quotation mark,</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">right double quote mark</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">right single angle quote mark</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">155</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">«</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">left (double) angle quote</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">171</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">´</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">spacing acute accent</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">180</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">»</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">right (double) angle quote</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">187</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br>
</span></div>
<div class="elementToProof" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As for me, I had to try searching
<b>SA:(«published for opposition» ) AND LD:true</b>, which succeeded, returning 88,368 hits, but I'm still trying to find useful information in the SA - Status field. So far, my three more interesting SA - Status search results are </span></div>
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</span></div>
<div class="elementToProof" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(1) the search
<b>(SA:("published for opposition" ) AND LD:true ) NOT PO:* </b>that returns 2 hits for which TSDR does NOT show the publication date directly on the status page though the prosecution histories display the published for opposition dates (both this past Tuesday);
and</span></div>
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</span></div>
<div class="elementToProof" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(2) the search
<b>SA:( “new application”) AND LD:true AND RN:*</b> retrieves 7 active registrations that are still considered to be new applications on trademark search;</span></div>
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</span></div>
<div class="elementToProof" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(3) the search
<b>(SA:( registered ) AND LD:true) NOT RN:*</b> retrieves 3 pending trademarks (no registration number on either TSDR or trademark search);</span></div>
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</span></div>
<div class="elementToProof" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">but my real disappointment is that trademark search
does not include a list of all or even the most commonly occurring phrases appearing in the SA - Status field, nor does trademark search display the SA - Status field in the record display, plus searching the phrases occurring on the TSDR status typically
fail to retrieve any document in trademark search, basically minimizing any benefits for including the SA - Status search field on trademark search.</span></div>
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Happy Quotation Searching,</div>
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Ken Boone</div>
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PS - In additional to a Full Record display option (that includes all the fields typically seen on registration certificates plus the SA - status field and UD - update date), trademark search should include a Drawings display option (like the retired TESS system)
that displays just the drawing and serial number for multiple records, allowing the quick review of drawings for the search results.</div>
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