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FTR, I received the email below on March 18th. I figured others in this E-Trademarks discussion group received similar requests for comments. I responded with several emails over the next few days. Based on the reply questions that I received from Louise
Newstead, I concluded that she was neither an experienced trademark searcher nor familiar with searching either TESS or Trademark Search. (Tim Lince requested comments from me in April 2021 for a WTR article about the flood of applications from China.) </div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 17.12px;">Hi Ken,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 17.12px;">I hope you don’t mind me reaching out.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">I’m a reporter at
<i>World Trademark Review </i>and<i> </i></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">I’m writing an article this week on the USPTO’s new trademark search tool (the replacement for TESS), and on some of the
feedback that has arisen since its launch a few months ago. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">My colleague, Tim Lince, mentioned that you might be a good person to reach out to.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">I was wondering whether you have any thoughts on how the new search engine compares to TESS? In particular, on any specific features/functions that you think have improved
or worsened the search engine experience? And on whether you think the new system marks an improvement overall?</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Any comments you could share by this time tomorrow would be great! We would then attribute these to you in the article. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Kind regards,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Louise</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); line-height: 21.4667px;"><b>Louise Newstead</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(29, 69, 120);"><b>REPORTER,
<i>WTR</i></b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 15.3333px;">Louise.Newstead@lbresearch.com</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><a href="http://www.worldtrademarkreview.com/" id="OWAa569deac-a5f7-c55f-105c-4101c9ca552a" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px;">www.worldtrademarkreview.com</a></span></p>
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Happy Trademarking,</div>
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Ken Boone</div>
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<b>From:</b> E-trademarks <e-trademarks-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com> on behalf of Alex Butterman via E-trademarks <e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 3, 2024 5:59 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> Alex Butterman <abutterman@dbllawyers.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [E-trademarks] [EXT] Re: Not everyone is unhappy with the new TESS</div>
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<div style="font-size: 11pt;">Agreed. I have seen several articles from this publication over the years refer specifically to issues we discuss and complain about on this List. In fact, I recall this publication reporting several times on the "where you sleep
at night" address issue and the publication repeated that exact language, making it even more well-known.<br>
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You are welcome, everyone.<br>
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From: E-trademarks <e-trademarks-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com> On Behalf Of Neil R. Ormos via E-trademarks<br>
Sent: Tuesday, April 2, 2024 10:47 AM<br>
To: E-trademarks Mailing List <e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com><br>
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Subject: Re: [E-trademarks] [EXT] Re: Not everyone is unhappy with the new TESS<br>
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Attachment: Article: "USPTO to iteratively develop new trademark search system.pdf"<br>
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Alex Butterman via E-trademarks wrote:<br>
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> Did everyone see the attached article? I tried to send this to the<br>
> list last week but it apparently never got posted. It is from WTR and<br>
> the original may have been paywalled, but my office made this pdf copy<br>
> for internal purposes and I'd like to think this is just fair use<br>
> between colleagues helping each other out.<br>
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Thank you.<br>
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> It is a PTO response to our criticism of the new search software and I<br>
> don't know why the PTO would or should respond only through trade<br>
> press that puts this behind a paywall.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Thanks, Carl, for providing these e-mail lists.<br>
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