[E-trademarks] [EXT] Re: Not everyone is unhappy with the new TESS

[Neil R. Ormos]

Attachment:  Article:  "USPTO to iteratively develop new trademark search system.pdf"

Alex Butterman via E-trademarks wrote:

> Did everyone see the attached article? I tried
> to send this to the list last week but it
> apparently never got posted. It is from WTR and
> the original may have been paywalled, but my
> office made this pdf copy for internal purposes
> and I'd like to think this is just fair use
> between colleagues helping each other out.

Thank you.

> It is a PTO response to our criticism of the new
> search software and I don't know why the PTO
> would or should respond only through trade press
> that puts this behind a paywall.

Of the people quoted in the article, six are not PTO officials.  At least four of those six are participants in Carl's e-mail lists.  I doubt that's mere coincidence.

Not only do Carl's e-mail lists serve practitioners directly, they also (it seems) serve journalists by aggregating the zeitgeist of the practitioner community and aid in identifying people who might be interviewed and quoted.

Thanks, Carl, for providing these e-mail lists.