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that I haven't found a way to do a proximity search in regex</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> ...</span></div>
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From the online help (Advanced logical operators):</div>
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<span style="font-family: PublicSans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(12, 100, 192); font-weight: bolder;">Use
</span><span style="font-family: "Roboto Mono Web", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", Consolas, Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(12, 100, 192); font-weight: bolder;"><code style="font-family: "Roboto Mono Web", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", Consolas, Courier, monospace;">~</code></span><span style="font-family: PublicSans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(12, 100, 192); font-weight: bolder;"> for
proximity searching with quoted search terms.</span><span style="font-family: PublicSans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"><br>
Allows words in quotes to appear with other words in-between or in a different order. Counts number words that are inserted, deleted, substituted, or transposed (called "positions"). For example,
</span><span style="font-family: "Roboto Mono Web", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", Consolas, Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"><code style="font-family: "Roboto Mono Web", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", Consolas, Courier, monospace;">CM:"rain
shine"~5</code></span><span style="font-family: PublicSans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"> retrieves:but doesn’t retrieve:</span></li><ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 2rem;">
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<span style="font-family: "Roboto Mono Web", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", Consolas, Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"><code style="font-family: "Roboto Mono Web", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", Consolas, Courier, monospace;">rain shine</code></span><span style="font-family: PublicSans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"> (no
insertions)</span></li><li style="font-family: PublicSans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">
<span style="font-family: "Roboto Mono Web", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", Consolas, Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"><code style="font-family: "Roboto Mono Web", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", Consolas, Courier, monospace;">shine
rain</code></span><span style="font-family: PublicSans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"> (one transposition)</span></li><li style="font-family: PublicSans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">
<span style="font-family: "Roboto Mono Web", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", Consolas, Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"><code style="font-family: "Roboto Mono Web", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", Consolas, Courier, monospace;">rain and
it might shine</code></span><span style="font-family: PublicSans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"> (three insertions) and</span></li><li style="font-family: PublicSans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">
<span style="font-family: "Roboto Mono Web", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", Consolas, Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"><code style="font-family: "Roboto Mono Web", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", Consolas, Courier, monospace;">shine
on rain</code></span><span style="font-family: PublicSans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"> (one transposition and one insertion)</span></li><li style="font-family: PublicSans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">
<span style="font-family: "Roboto Mono Web", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", Consolas, Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"><code style="font-family: "Roboto Mono Web", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", Consolas, Courier, monospace;">Shine
your car to protect from rain</code></span><span style="font-family: PublicSans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"> (one transposition and five insertions)</span></li></ul>
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For the earlier <b>GS:"baby bonnet"</b> example, I used the <b>GS2</b> index instead {to get the plurals or whatever they do for variations of the terms} and added variations of the ~# operator to demonstrate the impacts in the brief search session below.</div>
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GS:"baby bonnets" AND LD:true</div>
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GS2:"baby bonnets" AND LD:true</div>
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GS2:("baby bonnets" ~2) AND LD:true</div>
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GS2:("baby bonnets" ~3) AND LD:true</div>
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GS2:("baby bonnets" ~4) AND LD:true</div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">( 2 ) NOT ( 1 ) returned the single hit
</span><span style="font-family: PublicSans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(12, 100, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i>bodysuits for babies, bonnets,</i></span><span style="font-family: PublicSans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">assuming
I found the relevant GS text. (Where's the full document display with </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"><b><i>highlighting
</i></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">of the search terms?)</span></div>
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( 3 ) NOT ( 2 ) returned hits like:</div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Baby bodysuits; Bonnets; </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">baby caps, bonnets, and baby booties; </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">where some appear to be relevant and some not.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">( 4 ) NOT ( 3 ) returned hits like:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">baby shirts and pants, bonnets and socks</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bonnets; Frocks; Baby bodysuits; Baby bottoms;</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Baby tops; Bathing costumes; Bonnets;</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Baby tops; Bathing costumes; Bonnets; Bralettes;</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">where relevancy is more complicated. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The online help could have included more examples of ~# proximity searching. </span></div>
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Happy <i>regexing</i>,</div>
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<b>From:</b> E-trademarks <e-trademarks-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com> on behalf of Pamela Chestek via E-trademarks <e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, March 17, 2024 10:56 AM<br>
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<b>Cc:</b> Pamela Chestek <pamela@chesteklegal.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [E-trademarks] Regex search</div>
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<div>For one thing, it means that whenever you do a search you have to make a decision about whether to use the Advanced syntax or the regex syntax. And it appears there are situations where you
<i>must</i> use one or the other, such as my t-shirt example, which means you have to be highly skilled with both. Case in point - use of capitals:<br>
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Id Query ResultCount<br>
1 GS2:DVD 98307<br>
2 GS2:/DVD/ 0<br>
3 GS2:/dvd/ 98307<br>
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If you don't remember that the search string in regex must be lowercase, and enter the term as it actually appears in the ID, you may have just screwed the pooch. It's just an invitation to disaster because unless you are a master of both you won't realize
that your query was malformed.<br>
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I also mentioned that I haven't found a way to do a proximity search in regex. But you can only do pattern matching in regex. So to pattern match on a two-word unitary phrase, I guess you have to include two different searches, e.g.,
<i>CM:("tick tock") AND CM:(/ti[ckqx]/) AND CM:(/to[ckqx]/)</i> to find the homonyms for "tick tock"?<br>
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There are so many examples of unreliable queries - forgetting a colon after the field tag, or failing to use all caps for connectors, also give you some results and you may not realize they are unreliable. I have submitted a request that a malformed query be
flagged. It might not be possible with the t-shirt example, but it should be possible to at least identify syntactical errors.<br>
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Pam<br>
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<div>Pamela S. Chestek<br>
Chestek Legal<br>
300 Fayetteville Street<br>
Unit 2492<br>
Raleigh, NC 27602<br>
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<div>On 3/16/2024 11:44 AM, Sam Castree via E-trademarks wrote:</div>
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Just curious, but is there a reason why that particular search would need to use regex at all? Maybe I'm way off (I definitely don't claim to have mastered this system yet), but it seems like a..."normal" expert search would work just fine. GS:"baby bonnet"
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Cheers,</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 7:56 PM Pamela Chestek via E-trademarks <<a href="mailto:e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com" id="OWA7ddf7793-c1d0-31a3-39f5-f76ee8fd97e3" class="x_moz-txt-link-freetext OWAAutoLink">e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com</a>>
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Indeed, and the help materials couldn't be more terse and the<br>
information more difficult to find, other than not to exist at all. I<br>
have yet to figure out how (if possible) to search for a two-word<br>
expression, like "baby bonnet," using regex.<br>
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Id Query ResultCount<br>
3 GS2:(/baby/ AND /bonnet/) 2484<br>
2 GS2:/baby bonnet/ 0<br>
1 GS2:"baby bonnet" 43<br>
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So you're left with trying to remember two similar, but not identical,<br>
search systems, including how they treat quotation marks, reserved<br>
characters, capitalization, etc.<br>
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Pam<br>
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Pamela S. Chestek<br>
Chestek Legal<br>
300 Fayetteville Street<br>
Unit 2492<br>
Raleigh, NC 27602<br>
+1 919-800-8033<br>
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On 3/15/2024 8:40 PM, Richard Schafer via E-trademarks wrote:<br>
> The fact that we have to make guesses about how the indexes work shows how poorly the PTO has implemented and documented this system. I wonder if examining attorneys have the same poor explanation about how the indexes work. If they do, that's really bad.
If they have a fuller explanation, what possible reason would the PTO have for not making that explanation public?<br>
><br>
> Best regards,<br>
> Richard A. Schafer | Schafer IP Law<br>
> P.O. Box 230081 | Houston, TX 77223<br>
> M: 832.283.6564 | <a href="mailto:richard@schafer-ip.com" id="OWAe8a67086-d4cc-6426-e56b-a4f1bf96d404" class="x_moz-txt-link-freetext OWAAutoLink">
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> -----Original Message-----<br>
> From: E-trademarks <<a href="mailto:e-trademarks-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com" id="OWA6dee1124-0b45-77cc-8010-b66d7046f5af" class="x_moz-txt-link-freetext OWAAutoLink">e-trademarks-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com</a>> On Behalf Of Neil R. Ormos via E-trademarks<br>
> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2024 6:19 PM<br>
> To: E-trademarks Mailing List <<a href="mailto:e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com" id="OWA2a07bfb4-5e43-7bd7-5ad4-90ada497df37" class="x_moz-txt-link-freetext OWAAutoLink">e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com</a>><br>
> Cc: Neil R. Ormos <<a href="mailto:ormos-lists@ormos.org" id="OWA75d089dd-0127-8ddc-ad4a-a4787b35daf4" class="x_moz-txt-link-freetext OWAAutoLink">ormos-lists@ormos.org</a>><br>
> Subject: Re: [E-trademarks] Regex search<br>
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> Pamela Chestek via E-trademarks wrote:<br>
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>> Can anyone explain to me why the first two search queries didn't give<br>
>> me the same results as the third query? I was in expert mode.<br>
> <br>
>> GS:/t\-shirt/ 0<br>
>> GS:/t[-]shirt/ 0<br>
>> GS:t-shirt 511200<br>
> When the GS index is used with a regular expression search, the index appears to contain each of the words of the goods and services field in isolation. Spaces and hyphens separate words, but some other punctuation does not. Your regexps do not match because
t-shirt does not appear as a single word in the index.<br>
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> The GS index behaves differently when used with other types of search.<br>
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> <<a href="https://oppedahl-lists.com/pipermail/e-trademarks_oppedahl-lists.com/2024-January/000554.html" id="OWA9ee0388a-03f3-e6a4-b357-f99e8321aef6" class="x_moz-txt-link-freetext OWAAutoLink" data-auth="Verified">https://oppedahl-lists.com/pipermail/e-trademarks_oppedahl-lists.com/2024-January/000554.html</a>><br>
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> And the GS2 index also behaves differently.<br>
><br>
> GS2:/t[-]shirt/<br>
><br>
> returns 61,341 records.<br>
><br>
> I know GS2 does some sort of stemming, but I haven't been able to synthesize a complete explanation. If someone has GS2 figured it out, or knows of a document that describes its behavior, I hope they will explain.<br>
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