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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/2/2024 11:46 AM, Neil R. Ormos via
E-trademarks wrote:</div>
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cite="mid:alpine.DEB.2.20.2404021129520.10346@nybun.bezbf.bet"><span
style="white-space: pre-wrap">Of the people quoted in the article, six are not PTO officials. At least four of those six are participants in Carl's e-mail lists. I doubt that's mere coincidence.</span>
<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Not only do Carl's e-mail lists serve practitioners directly, they also (it seems) serve journalists by aggregating the zeitgeist of the practitioner community and aid in identifying people who might be interviewed and quoted.
Thanks, Carl, for providing these e-mail lists.</pre>
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<p>You are welcome of course.</p>
<p>There are several sad elements to the overall situation.</p>
<p>The USPTO says over and over again, to anyone who will listen,
that the "correct" way to report bugs and design failures is this
black hole or that black hole. Or bottomless pit, whatever
metaphor you choose. <br>
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<p>What happens instead is that the only thing that actually gets
results is some external force. In this case, the good luck that
some reporter at WTR goes to the trouble to follow discussions in
the listserv ...</p>
<p>and that members of the listserv community go to the trouble to
make careful notes of various bugs and design failures on the part
of this or that system at the Trademark Office. And the members
of the listserv community share them and describe them succinctly
on the listserv.</p>
<p>Which makes it possible for the reporter to identify a need for a
WTR story.</p>
<p>And the reporter is persistent and somehow gets something from
the Trademark Office that is at least vaguely responsive. <br>
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