[E-trademarks] [EXT] Re: who covers the phone lines (was Renewal email is in the ether somewhere)

[Sam Castree]

That's, uh, an unfortunate acronym that they have, there.  You'd think that
someone could have come up with something a little better.

Cheers,

Sam Castree, III

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On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 12:34 AM Alex Butterman via E-trademarks <
e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:

> I agree that I think TAC is staffed by USPTO employees and specifically a
> rotating group of TM paralegals (“Legal Instruments Examiners” or LIEs).  I
> have a friend who has been an LIE on the TM side for years, now I think
> working in the Commissioner’s Office processing petitions, and I recall her
> telling me that she would need to do rotations answering the phones at TAC.
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> Renewal email is in the ether somewhere)
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> I believe the Trademark Assistance Center is staffed by USPTO employees. I
> was able to find several of their names and phone numbers just by searching
> TAC through the organization field of the USPTO employee locator.
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> https://portal.uspto.gov/EmployeeSearch/
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> For whatever it's worth, I also was able to find the names and phone
> numbers of several people working in the Application Assistance Center by
> searching AAU in the same field.
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