Trademarks ASSIST Subscriber Notice

2002 June Issue

We are pleased to provide you with the 2002 June issue of Trademarks ASSIST. This issue contains Trademark Examination Guides, Notes, and Announcements in addition to Trademark ASSIST’s standard files. Trademarks ASSIST is published on CD-ROM and is accessible from either a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive.

The following updated files are included on this issue of Trademarks ASSIST:

• Design Search Code Manual, 2002 June
• Goods and Services Manual, 2002 June
• Trademark Examination Guides, Notes, and Announcements, 2002 June
• Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure (TMEP), 3rd ed., 2002 June
• Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Manual of Procedure (TBMP), 1st ed., 1995 September
• Trademarks Telephone Index, 2002 June
• U.S. Trademark Law: Rules of Practice and Federal Statutes, 6th ed., 2002 June

The following special features are provided on Trademarks ASSIST:

• The latest edition of the Design Search Code Manual is text searchable and search results display pages from the actual Manual, including images. There are also links within the Manual to jump from cross-references to related codes. Once you have followed links in the document, use the previous link  icon to return to your previous location. There is more information about this feature in the online Help.

• The Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Manual of Procedure, Trademark Statute and Rules, and Trademark Examination Guides, Notes, and Announcements files each have a Table of Contents in addition to searchable text. If you know a specific chapter of section, the table of contents allows you to jump there directly.

To use the table of contents, click on the table of contents icon   located on the far right of the toolbar. When you click on this icon, the upper window of the Results screen displays a hyper-linked table of contents.  Click on the chapter or section you want to access and the text is displayed in the lower window.  Note that the Results tab displays "Contents" when you are in the table of contents mode.  When you want to return to text searching, click on one of the search tabs or the table of contents icon. The Results screen is reset and the tab again displays "Results." There is more information about this feature in the online Help.

System Requirements:

Pentium PC running Windows 95 (service pack 5); Windows 98; Windows NT (service pack 4); or Windows 2000; Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher is necessary to access the online Help system; and a Second-generation DVD-ROM drive or CD-ROM drive.  Note that this software will not run under DOS or Windows 3.x.

We hope you will find that the product's enhancements create a more efficient searching environment for you. Please contact us if you have any questions or comments.

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