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Surprise! I'm seeing a new version of Trademark Search this morning. Well, I'm seeing that new version with Chrome and on my Fire tablet. There are multiple changes. Here's the announcement.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">May 16, 2024 Release</span></div>
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This release has the following changes:</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">Added the search builder feature to help formulate complex searches when searching by field tag.</span></li><li style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">Replaced Search by all with General search, which provides more relevant results at the top of the page.</span></li><li style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">Changed the default search option from Wordmark to General search.</span></li><li style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">Improved the quality of search results when searching by Owner.</span></li><li style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">Fixed a bug where certain symbols caused the wordmark to display incorrectly in the results.</span></li><li style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">Fixed a bug where history references were not recognized during a registration number search.</span></li><li style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">Fixed a bug where some tooltips were difficult to dismiss.</span></li><li style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">Fixed a bug where registration numbers were interpreted as history entries in Expert mode.</span></li><li style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">Improved the clarity of helper text in the search bar when searching by Wordmark.</span></li><li style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">Added enhancements for better accessibility.</span></li></ul>
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I'm NOT seeing the new version of Trademark Search with Edge. Well, there's a new version, but all I see is a blank screen except for the Feedback button. View page source does display 33 lines of text. Read aloud only provides the sound of the word
<span style="background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Feedback</span>. Looks like I'll be doing my searches via Chrome until the bug with Edge is resolved.</div>
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Happy Trademarking,</div>
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Ken Boone</div>
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