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

[Terry Carroll]

At least on the Copyright side, some congressional staffer recognized the 
unfortunateness of the Copyright Royalty Arbitration Panel acronym, and it 
got changed to the less sensible but better acronymable Copyright 
Arbitration Royalty Panel.

In any case, CARP went away in 2004, in favor of Copyright Royalty Judges.

-- 
Terry Carroll
carroll at tjc.com


On Sat, 19 Apr 2025, Sam Castree via E-trademarks wrote:

> That's, uh, an unfortunate acronym that they have, there.  You'd think that
> someone could have come up with something a little better.
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> On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 12:34?AM Alex Butterman via E-trademarks
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>       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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>       From: E-trademarks <e-trademarks-bounces at oppedahl-lists.com> On
>       Behalf Of Rachael Dickson via E-trademarks
>       Sent: Friday, April 18, 2025 3:42 PM
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>       Subject: [EXT] Re: [E-trademarks] who covers the phone lines
>       (was 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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