[E-trademarks] posters for the USPTO folks and for the WIPO folks

[Carl Oppedahl]

Hello folks.  It will be recalled that at the tenth annual e-trademarks 
listserv reception, which was on Tuesday, May 3, 2022 in Washington, DC, 
we prepared a poster.  On the poster we listed topics and suggestions 
for improvement of the Madrid Protocol system administered by WIPO.  
During the reception, attendees had the opportunity to sign the poster.  
We then gave the poster to one of the WIPO people to take back to 
Geneva.  We later learned that the poster was put into a place of 
prominence in the WIPO offices, and I prefer to think that surely at 
least some of the topics and suggestions got attended to.

You can see the 2022 poster, and you can read about its arrival in 
Geneva, here 
<https://blog.oppedahl.com/nice-people-at-wipo-received-our-poster/>.

I looked over the poster and I think some of the topics and suggestions 
are still outstanding.  In fact the more I review it, I think that quite 
a few of the topics and suggestions are still outstanding.  :(

Anyway, I think it would be a nice touch if we could work on similar 
posters for this year's reception.

A first poster will list topics and suggestions for improvement of 
USPTO's trademark processes and systems.  Attendees who wish to do so 
could sign that poster during the reception.  Commissioner Gooder has 
RSVP'd that he will attend, so I think we could offer the signed poster 
to him to take back to his office.  To submit a topic or suggestion for 
this poster, click here 
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScowa-ZTpEC8osHWKOGswb7w4ijYacMlAVYKm_QWE8_1qT4KQ/viewform?usp=sf_link>. 
Feel free to submit more than one topic or suggestion.

A second poster will list topics and suggestions for improvement of 
WIPO's trademark processes and systems.  Attendees who wish to do so 
could sign that poster during the reception.  We have an RSVP from at 
least one of the WIPO Madrid people, so we could offer the signed poster 
to him to take back to his office.  To submit a topic or suggestion for 
this poster, click here 
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScx2ct3cVvODqBvq-5k7dbnEZVMHSg-Z58HtnSVebSzab4DFA/viewform?usp=sf_link>. 
Feel free to submit more than one topic or suggestion.

We will need one or two listserv members to serve as volunteers on 
this.  A few days before the reception, we will turn off the submission 
forms.  And then we will need to work through the submissions.  We will 
need to edit the submissions, merging topics as needed to minimize 
duplication.  We will need to revise for consistency of style and, 
perhaps, politeness and tone.  Please if you would like to volunteer for 
this, drop me a note.  And then we would print out the posters for 
display on easels at the reception.  Attendees could sign the posters, 
which you ought to do as soon as possible after the reception starts.  
Then when one or another of our honored guests arrives, we could greet 
the guest and welcome him or her, and offer him or her the poster.  My 
best guess is we would not want to go into the substantive content of 
the poster during the reception itself, other than very brief 
recognition of the shared goals.

Carl




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