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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Dear all:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.25in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">The five biggest national trademark offices (known collectively as the TM5,
<a href="https://tmfive.org/">Home - TM5</a>) will hold their annual meeting in December. The program will afford user groups the opportunity to raise concerns about prosecution-related issues (especially those having to do with bad faith filings) directly
with the leadership of those offices. As a representative at the meeting of two such groups, I\u2019d greatly appreciate learning of any suggestions for improvement (however technical or petty) that can passed along to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">CNIPA;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">EUIPO;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">JPO; and/or<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">KIPO.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">(The USPTO prefers to receive criticism about its own operations outside the context of TM5.)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">This is a real opportunity to bring about favorable changes\u2014for example, long-standing user comments at TM5 meetings helped bring about JPO\u2019s acceptance
(well, at least in theory) of consent agreements. Accordingly, if you have concerns you\u2019d like raised, whether relating to the ex parte examination process or adversarial proceedings in China, the EU, Japan, or South Korea, please circulate them to me off
list at <a href="mailto:tdavis@ktslaw.com">tdavis@ktslaw.com</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Ted Davis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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