The executive summary is that the USPTO developers of Trademark Center made a big mistake in the coding of the priority claims in a trademark application — they failed to provide EUIPO and Benelux as trademark offices in which a priority application might have been filed. In doing so, they failed to learn from the identical mistake that had been made by the USPTO developers of Patent Center, who had failed to provide EPO and OAPI and ARIPO and EAPO as patent offices in which a priority application might have been filed. Continue reading “EUIPO and Benelux are missing from Trademark Center”
Another try with Bluesky and Mastodon
Well, folks, I am only slowly making progress at setting up Bluesky and Mastodon on this blog. This is a test posting on this blog to see if it propagates through to Bluesky and Mastodon.
As best I can discern, my Bluesky identifier is “ant-like.bsky.social” and my Mastodon ID is “@ant_like@mastodon.social”.
If any reader is an experienced user of Bluesky or Mastodon, I’d be grateful if you can look to see if I have made progress.
Mastodon, Bluesky, and RSS
Recently John Welch, the author of the TTABlog, posted to the e-Trademarks listserv to ask this:
I’ve been tweeting my blog posts for many years now, but I am fed up with the increasingly vile content on X/Twitter.
Can anyone recommend a good alternative?
Several listserv members offered very helpful suggestions. Perhaps the most helpful response was from Rebecca Tushnet, who wrote:
For my own reading, my current choice is Bluesky + a bunch of RSS feeds, including John’s indispensable TTABlog.
FWIW: I now have automatic crossposting from my blog to Mastodon, Bluesky, … RSS feed, and LinkedIn.
It is true, by the way, that John’s TTABlog is indispensable.
I have just now added a couple of plugins to my blog that I hope will automatically feed my blog postings to both Mastodon and Bluesky. I would be grateful if a reader who uses Mastodon can take a look to see if I succeeded. Likewise, I would be grateful if a reader who uses Bluesky can take a look to see if I succeeded.
I have also added an RSS feed icon which you can see at right. I would be grateful if a reader who uses an RSS reader can take a look to see if I succeeded.