[E-trademarks] Trademark Search: Display Text Option (To View Just The Drawing?)

[Ken Boone]

Hello Trademark Search experts,

I hope this message finds you well. I wanted to share some thoughts on possible interface enhancements for Trademark Search, building on the helpful features already in place.

First, I truly appreciate the current Show Image option, which makes it easy to toggle image display (though I rarely turn off the display of images). Would it be possible to consider adding a Show Text checkbox as well?  Disabling this Show Text option (just below the Show Image checkbox) would allow users to just view the drawings (a feature provided in TESS). Showing just the drawings could help anyone focused exclusively on reviewing the drawings without scrolling through accompanying text.  For example, with the proper zoom setting, a screen could likely display 25 drawings (5 rows of 5 drawings), allowing users to quickly tag those drawings of interest. It might be helpful to always display the serial numbers so that any screen snapshots when text display was disabled would include both the drawings and their unique serial number identifiers.

Additionally, perhaps we could consider a Tagged Documents Display feature, which would show all trademarks tagged during a session. I often use the export option simply to create a list of tagged documents for later review.  A Tagged Documents Display would simplify the review of the tagged trademarks during the search session, allowing the less-relevant trademarks to be untagged.

I'd value any thoughts or suggestions you might have and thank you for considering these ideas.

Looking forward to your feedback and to further collaboration.

Best regards,
Ken Boone

PS - I recently encountered the standard character mark BEVALC360˚, filed October 10th.

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Carl's favorite Unicode character tool (https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/whatisit.html) shows the following for that BEVALC360˚ wordmark.

U+0042 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B
U+0045 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E
U+0056 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER V
U+0041 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A
U+004C : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L
U+0043 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C
U+0033 : DIGIT THREE
U+0036 : DIGIT SIX
U+0030 : DIGIT ZERO
U+02DA : RING ABOVE

That is, the final character ˚ has the hexadecimal value 2DA (decimal 730), well above the current maximum standard character ž (Latin small letter z with caron, decimal 382). It appears that Trademark Center accepted ˚ (U+02DA : RING ABOVE) as a valid standard character.  I'm still seeing new Madrid standard character marks with invalid standard characters (eg. HOPE＆LOOPP, PHở STORY, ˚M WARMER {another occurrence of the RING ABOVE}& СHILLGUY).



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