[E-trademarks] Missing From TESS Beta: Occurrences & Dictionary Browse

[Ken Boone]

With one week until the current version of TESS is officially retired, one might ask, "What capabilities will be lost?"  I will briefly mention 2 soon-to-be retired capabilities, namely (1) the ability to check the occurrences of search terms among the search results and (2) the ability to browse the dictionary (i.e., the search indexes).

Consider the following current TESS search session.

No.
Search Terms
Documents
Occurrences
S1
0309$[DC] not dead[ld]
              4,436
              8,468
S2
030901[DC] not dead[ld]
              1,681
              1,681
S3
030902[DC] not dead[ld]
              1,440
              1,440
S4
030906[DC] not dead[ld]
                  636
                  636
S5
030907[DC] not dead[ld]
                  226
                  226
S6
030909[DC] not dead[ld]
                  477
                  477
S7
030924[DC] not dead[ld]
              2,674
              2,674
S8
030926[DC] not dead[ld]
              1,333
              1,333
S9
S1 not (S2 S3 S4 S5 S6 S7 S8)
0
0
S10
(S2 S3 S4 S5 S6 S7 S8)
              4,436
              8,467


The first search indicates that for the live trademarks on current TESS, there are 8,468 occurrences of design search code in division 03.09 for 4,436 live marks.

Searches S2 through S8 provides the hit counts and occurrences for the unique 6-digit design search codes that I found in the DSCM for division 03.09.

Search S9 confirms all the hits from the first search occur in searches S2 through S8.

Search S10 also confirms all the hits from the first search occur in searches S2 through S8, although a curious mismatch is evident, as the 8,468 occurrences for S1 is one more than the 8,467 occurrences in S10.  (Yes, adding the occurrences for S2 through S8 also sums to 8,467.)

Conveniently current TESS includes the Dictionary Browse feature to allow for some analyses of what may have occurred in that search session.

Admittedly, the Dictionary Browse feature is somewhat cumbersome.  I browsed twice in the Dictionary Browse, first with 0309[DC] and then with 030909[DC].  Merging those two result screens yields

Term
Docs
Hits
"030729"[DC]
            225
            225
"030901"[DC]
         4,381
         4,381
"030902"[DC]
         3,482
         3,482
"030906"[DC]
         2,342
         2,342
"030907"[DC]
            593
            593
"030909"[DC]
         1,883
         1,883
"030924"[DC]
         6,238
         6,238
"030925"[DC]
                 1
                 1
"030926"[DC]
         4,300
         4,300
"031101"[DC]
         5,000
         5,000

where design search code 030925 has magically appeared for division 03.09 with one occurrence.

And now you're anxious to go to the Design Search Code Manual to double check whether design code 030925 actually appears but that I somehow overlooked that search code entry for my current TESS searches.  Go ahead.  I'll wait.

Okay, I got tired of waiting and did the dictionary browse of the DSCM myself, first updating the Max Returned Terms to 50 so that the single browse of 0309 would return all the relevant terms for division 03.09, namely

Term
Docs
Hits
030729
1
1
0309
4
4
030901
4
4
030902
11
19
030906
5
8
030907
3
4
030909
3
3
030924
2
2
030926
2
2
0311
2
2

and clearly the 6-digit design search 030925 is NOT included in that list.

As it happens, I searched through my old files and found a copy of the Alphabetical Index to the Design Search Code Manual as an Excel file in May 2012.  Below are the relevant entries for 030925 from the Alphabetical Index as of May 2012.

03.09.25 - Aardvarks
03.09.25 - Anteaters
03.09.25 - Gophers
03.09.25 - Other rodents and small mammals other than cats and dogs
03.09.25 - Platypus (semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal of Australia and Tasmania with webbed feet and a snout resembling a duck's bill)

As it happens, the TESS Beta search DC:030925 does retrieve a single live trademark.  Unfortunately, TESS Beta does not have a full record display, so we cannot view the relevant design code text for that trademark directly on TESS Beta.  The toggle to TSDR is less than satisfactory, as neither the design code 030925 nor the description is displayed on TSDR.

In summary:

Design search code 03.09.25 did exist at one time but has since been removed from the Design Search Code Manual.  (This was a check on only 1 of 156 divisions currently occurring in the DSCM.)

With neither a dictionary browse feature nor any view of occurrences of search terms in TESS Beta, the analyses performed above will be significantly more difficult or impossible.

Happy Thanksgiving,
Ken Boone
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