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Hello Trademark Search experts,</div>
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I hope this message finds you well. I wanted to share some thoughts on possible interface enhancements for Trademark Search, building on the helpful features already in place.</div>
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First, I truly appreciate the current <b>Show Image</b> option, which makes it easy to toggle image display (though I rarely turn off the display of images). Would it be possible to consider adding a
<b>Show Text</b> checkbox as well? Disabling this <b>Show Text</b> option (just below the
<b>Show Image </b>checkbox) would allow users to just view the drawings (a feature provided in TESS). Showing just the drawings could help anyone focused exclusively on reviewing the drawings without scrolling through accompanying text. For example, with the
proper zoom setting, a screen could likely display 25 drawings (5 rows of 5 drawings), allowing users to quickly tag those drawings of interest. It might be helpful to always display the serial numbers so that any screen snapshots when text display was disabled
would include both the drawings and their unique serial number identifiers.</div>
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Additionally, perhaps we could consider a <b>Tagged Documents Display</b> feature, which would show all trademarks tagged during a session. I often use the export option simply to create a list of tagged documents for later review. A
<b>Tagged Documents Display </b>would simplify the review of the tagged trademarks during the search session, allowing the less-relevant trademarks to be untagged.</div>
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I'd value any thoughts or suggestions you might have and thank you for considering these ideas.</div>
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Looking forward to your feedback and to further collaboration.</div>
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Best regards,</div>
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Ken Boone</div>
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PS - I recently encountered the standard character mark <b>BEVALC360\u02da</b>, filed October 10th.</div>
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<img style="width: auto; height: auto; max-width: 1608px; max-height: 150px; box-sizing: border-box; border-top-left-radius: 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5) 0px 0px 10px;" alt="Image for 99436358" src="https://tmcms-docs.uspto.gov/cases/99436358/mark/large.png"></div>
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Carl's favorite Unicode character tool (<a id="LPlnk638558" href="https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/whatisit.html">https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/whatisit.html</a>) shows the following for that
<b>BEVALC360\u02da</b> wordmark.</div>
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U+0042 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B</div>
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U+0045 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E</div>
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U+0056 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER V</div>
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U+0041 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A</div>
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U+004C : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L</div>
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U+0043 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C</div>
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U+0033 : DIGIT THREE</div>
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U+0036 : DIGIT SIX</div>
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U+0030 : DIGIT ZERO</div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">U+02DA : RING ABOVE</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">That is, the final character <b>\u02da </b>has the hexadecimal value 2DA (decimal 730), well above the current maximum standard character \u017e (Latin small letter z with caron, decimal 382). It appears that Trademark Center accepted
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">\u02da</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> (</span><span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">U+02DA : RING ABOVE</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">)
as a valid standard character. I'm still seeing new Madrid standard character marks with invalid standard characters (eg.
<b>HOPE</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><b>\uff06</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>LOOPP</b>,
<b>PH</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><b>\u1edf</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b> STORY</b>,
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><b>\u02da</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>M WARMER</b> {another occurrence of the
</span><span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">RING ABOVE</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">}&
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><b>\u0421</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>HILLGUY</b>).</span></div>
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