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</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">E-trademarks <e-trademarks-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com> on behalf of mkrieger239--- via E-trademarks <e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, 19 March 2024 at 12:09</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">am<br>
<b>To: </b>For trademark practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek legal advice. <e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com><br>
<b>Cc: </b>mkrieger239@earthlink.net <mkrieger239@earthlink.net><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [E-trademarks] Regex search<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0.1rem 0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">My heart goes out to you, Carl, Pam, Susan and the many others on this listserv who have extensive trademark practices for all your suffering with the USPTO's ineptitude.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0.1rem 0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0.1rem 0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Designing, building, and maintaining software systems is perhaps the hardest, and certainly the least appreciated, task in the technology world. In too many cases, it's like
cooking would be if the characteristics of the tools and ingredients were changing while baking that cake, casserole, or stuffed turkey. In reality, relatively few people even those in the s/ware world itself really have a hold on what it takes to implement
a system effectively. By way of example ('tho not entirely software), the success of JPL versus the picture we're seeing of Boeing is illustrative. To steal from Feynman's famous quote about the Shuttle disaster, no matter how much PR, software cannot be
fooled.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0.1rem 0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0.1rem 0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Too many companies or divisions have gone under for lack of having a "big picture" talent who was also given adequate power to dictate how things would be done. All this becomes
even worse if a new system is replacing an existing one that at the same time has to continue running. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0.1rem 0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0.1rem 0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">That said, Carl's ongoing descriptions of various weaknesses and failings of the new TEAS and other systems are no surprise. Anyone who's followed Carl's patent "saga of docx"
knows how obdurate the PTO is. So why would anyone with the requistite s/ware experience and skills work for the PTO? And at a fraction of what they'd make on the outside. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0.1rem 0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0.1rem 0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">As my tm practice is small and for folks with whom I have a personal relationship, I anticipate side-stepping the system's byzantine design and limits. For most of you, heartfelt
sympathy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0.1rem 0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0.1rem 0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Michael<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0.1rem 0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Michael M. Krieger, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0.1rem 0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Krieger Law<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0.1rem 0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Los Angeles CA 90064<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0.1rem 0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">310-766-5208<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>-----Original Message-----<br>
From: For trademark practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek legal advice. <e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com><br>
Sent: Mar 18, 2024 3:25 PM<br>
To: For trademark practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek legal advice. <e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com><br>
Cc: Kevin Grierson <kgrierson@cm.law><br>
Subject: Re: [E-trademarks] Regex search<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">FWIW, The PTO provided 3 hours of CLE on searching about a month ago. The first hour was the basics, the second was advanced search using field tags, and in the third they got
into Regex. The videos are available on the search "front" page: https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/search. They also shared materials from those webinars, which are under the heading "clearance searching" on the same page. I must confess that I was pretty lost
by the third hour. In concept it makes sense but the syntax seems convoluted and unintuitive, and of course the Regex syntax doesn't match the non-Regex field tag searching syntax.<br>
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Kevin Grierson<br>
culhane|meadows pllc<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: E-trademarks <e-trademarks-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com> On Behalf Of Neil R. Ormos via E-trademarks<br>
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2024 6:11 PM<br>
To: E-trademarks Mailing List <e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com><br>
Cc: Neil R. Ormos <ormos-lists@ormos.org><br>
Subject: Re: [E-trademarks] Regex search<br>
<br>
EXTERNAL EMAIL<br>
<br>
Carl Oppedahl wrote:<br>
> Pamela Chestek wrote:<br>
<br>
>> For one thing, it means that whenever you do a search you have to<br>
>> make a decision about whether to use the Advanced syntax or the regex<br>
>> syntax. And it appears there are situations where you /must/ use one<br>
>> or the other, such as my t-shirt example, which means you have to be<br>
>> highly skilled with both.<br>
<br>
>> If you don't remember that the search string in regex must be<br>
>> lowercase, and enter the term as it actually appears in the ID, you<br>
>> may have just screwed the pooch. It's just an invitation to disaster<br>
>> because unless you are a master of both you won't realize that your<br>
>> query was malformed. [...]<br>
<br>
>> There are so many examples of unreliable queries - forgetting a colon<br>
>> after the field tag, or failing to use all caps for connectors, also<br>
>> give you some results and you may not realize they are unreliable. I<br>
>> have submitted a request that a malformed query be flagged. It might<br>
>> not be possible with the t-shirt example, but it should be possible<br>
>> to at least identify syntactical errors.<br>
<br>
> What she said.<br>
<br>
The search language of the new system seems exceptionally brittle for something intended to be used by the public, or by anyone who has not received extensive training and does not practice searching daily.<br>
<br>
If we believe the trademark examining attorneys use the same search system, perhaps the training materials are available through FOIA.<br>
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