[E-trademarks] looking for a volunteer editor for the transcript of Thursday's oral argument

[Carl Oppedahl]

Hello Colleagues.  I am looking for one or more volunteer editors for 
the transcript of Thursday's oral argument for /In Re Chestek PLLC/, 
appeal number 22-1843.

You can download the audio recording of the oral argument here: 
https://www.oplf.com/cle/20231207-oral-argument.mp3 .  To download the 
file, right-click on the link.  Or you can simply click on the link and 
you can probably listen to the recording on your computer or phone or 
tablet.  The recording is about 30 minutes in duration.

The judges on this panel were:

  * Judge Alan D. Lourie (older male voice)
  * Judge Raymond T. Chen (slightly younger and sometimes slightly
    stronger male voice)
  * Judge Kara F. Stoll (female voice)

Unfortunately the recording system in the courtroom did a poor job of 
picking up the voices of the three judges.  So those voices are rather 
faint in the recording.  A person might need to listen to each of these 
portions multiple times to arrive at some confidence as to what exactly 
each judge said.

The only voices that came through strongly were the voices at the 
lectern.  The two speakers at the lectern were:

  * Andrew Grossman (male voice)
  * Mary Beth Walker (female voice)

I have obtained a transcription of the recording, and it is attached.  
(It is attached as an OpenDocument file and as a Microsoft Word file.)  
Of course the transcript was prepared by someone who is not familiar 
with the terminology.  So it is filled with wrong words at various 
points, which of course need correcting, and some things that were 
unintelligible for the transcriber might nonetheless be intelligible for 
someone familiar with the terminology.

I would be very grateful if some member of the listserv would be willing 
to volunteer to clean up the transcript, based upon repeated careful 
listening to the recording.

  * My best guess is that Speaker 1 is most often Judge Lourie.
  * My best guess is that Speaker 3 is Judge Stoll.  Another way to say
    this is that whenever we hear a faint female voice, it is likely to
    be Judge Stoll.
  * My best guess is that Speaker 4 is most often Judge Chen.

Speaker 5 is Mary Beth Walker for the USPTO (female voice at the lectern).

I will make a guess that Speaker 2 is the same as either speaker 1 or 
speaker 4.  My recollection of the hearing is that Judge Lourie did not 
speak very often, mostly just at the beginning and end of each segment 
of the oral argument.  If this aspect of my recollection is accurate, 
then most often when we hear a faint male voice it would most likely be 
Judge Chen.

The goal would be to edit the word processor file so that it is as 
accurate as possible a transcript of the recording.

I suppose if two people each try to clean this up, then I could do a 
file comparison between the two cleaned-up files and this would permit a 
fairly confident feeling about the overall result.

Carl
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