pto must do more. we ask the kbt to consider the following concepts to strengthen examination practices using people, process and technology to mitigate the successful registration of the fraudulent trademarks. first, modernize the u.s. pto tool can kit for reviewing fraudulent applications preponderate u.s. pto should create a specialized review team more effectively assessing applications from bad actors dwichlg edevelop stringent review the specimen and apply for rigger and consistency during examination while working within existing resource constraints. second, give the u.s. pto theplex ability to society response time lines. today the u.s. pto muffett allow application politics to six months to respond to inquiry shortening the time to respond should be issues to resolution sooner. third, allow a third party to ob ant offer evidence regarding pending applications. today a third party has no effective and timely path to present evidence of bad faith or challenge a pending application for that matt

commerce to qualify for your registration of the pto. to make the use in commerce requirements, numerous chinese applicants have been submitting during the process fraudulent evidence of use. typically the forum of doctor photographs. in a written testimony, we conducted on the issue, we shared that at least with respect, two thirds of chinese applications filed in 2017, contained apparently fraudulently use. 60 percent of these are nevertheless approved for your publication and 39 percent then proceeded to registration. join these applications are allowed to proceed registration, they contribute to clutter on the registry. clutter is the term that trademark law describes them that is not actually used in commerce. let's defend the integrity of the trademark registry, support a mix of reforms to trademarks. including processes for your re-examination and expungement of registrations of trademarks not being used in commerce. specialization of trademark examiners, and requiring the pto to study and report annually. function will it tradema

pto tool kit for reviewing fraudulent trademarks. we should more effectively assess fraudulent applications, develop more stringent review and apply more rigor and consistency during examination, while working within resource constraints. second, give the u.s. because the flexibility to set response timelines. today, the u.s. video must allow applicant six months to respond to an inquiry, shortening the time to respond would bring issue to a resolution sooner. third, allowing third-party to object and offer evidence regarding pending applications. today, a third party has no effect of anti timely path to prevent evidence of bad faith or talent a pending application, or for that matter, issue registration. these remedies need to be approved or new solutions developed to allow third parties to raise challenges against applications and registrations. these avenues could become a viable means for third parties to help the clutter the register. thank you again for providing the opportunity to testify today. we want to continue working wit

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there has been a lot of debate over the last ten, 15 years in congress, a number of changes done at the ptoand i think our new leader there is doing a phenomenal job in ensuring the quality of patterns in the process is as good as it could possibly be. so we will see. >> you have also been taking some look at standards development organizations and a lot of this has a very big effect on 5g development and new wireless technologies. any thoughts about antitrust and standards development organizations? >> so we had taken a look, and i think we have issued a business review letter which is gotten a little bit less noticed, the impact of that. just the last two weeks. and this dealt with little sim cards that we all find in our phones but its effect on its been around about ten years, believe it or not and is in all of our ipad and it lead the apple watches but not in all of our phones. and e-sim is a way we don't have to go to a store or by the little card to switch. you can do that electronically. it's embedded in it and it's done through software. why is that good? because the carrier could

lot of debate in the last 10 to 15 years in congress where there is a number of changes done at the pto, and i think that our new leader there is doing a phenomenal job to ensure that the quality of the patents and the quality of the process is as good as it can be, so we will see. >> you have also been taking some look at standards development organizations and a lot of this has a big effect on 5g development and new wireless technologies. any thoughts about anti-trust in the development organizations? >> we had taken a look at, and i think that we have issued a business review letter which has gone a little bit less noticed, and the impact of that is just the last two weeks, and this dealt with esems which are little sim cards that we find in our phones, but the esim is a technology has the been around for ten years believe it or not, and it is in all of the ipads and the apple watches, but not in our phones. and esim is a way that you don't have to go to the store or buy the little card to switch. you can do it electronically, because it is embed it in, and it is done through the sof

he started treatment and died pto intensive care.f being moved i encourage everybody to see her tweetsir time together. she says this -- one of the tweets, that his brightness showed even up to the last day that he was awake. he kept the doctors and nurses laughing and made a point to thank them. >> he was texting i think a friend to get her christmas presents wrapped and how much he loved christmas. his birthday was the same -- >> scheduled to get married in april. >> yeah. >> such a terrible story. our heart goes out to them. look at the tweets. they're move toing. >>> actress marlee matlin is criticizing delta airlines for what she calls a lack of accessibility for deaf passengers. matalin is the only deaf performer to ever win an oscar. she tweeted a video of her singing from her seat on a delta -- signing, rather, from her delta plane. she said it was sad that her flight had, quote, provisions for various languages and audio description for in-flight entertainment, but no closed captions for deaf and hard-of-hearing flyers. well, delta apologized and said in a statement, "most of