I am pleased to announce Plumage (Plumage-py) 1.4.0 ("Experiment IV").

Plumage is a module to obtain trademark status and information from the
United States Patent & Trademark Office's (USPTO's) Trademark Status &
Document Retrieval (TSDR) system. It takes as input either a trademark registration number or application serial number, fetches the
corresponding XML data from the PTO's TSDR website, and returns a
dictionary of data associated with the specified TSDR entry.

Example:

from Plumage import plumage
t = plumage.TSDRReq()
t.setAPIKey(APIKEY) # API Key obtained from USPTO
t.getTSDRInfo("2564831", "r") # get info on reg. no 2,564,831 tsdrdata=t.TSDRData
if tsdrdata.TSDRMapIsValid:
print("Application serial no: ", tsdrdata.TSDRSingle["ApplicationNumber"])
print("Trademark text: ", tsdrdata.TSDRSingle["MarkVerbalElementText"])
print("Application filing date: ", tsdrdata.TSDRSingle["ApplicationDate"])
print("Registration no: ", tsdrdata.TSDRSingle["RegistrationNumber"])
# Owner info is in most recent (0th) entry in ApplicantList
applicant_list = tsdrdata.TSDRMulti["ApplicantList"]
current_owner_info = applicant_list[0]
print("Owner:", current_owner_info["ApplicantName"])

Will print:

Application serial no: 75181334
Trademark text: MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS
Application filing date: 1996-10-15-04:00
Registration no: 2564831
Owner: Python (Monty) Pictures Ltd.

Multiple trademark applications or registrations can be successively
queried. for example:

t = plumage.TSDRReq()
application_numbers = ["76535603", "75854426", "86142154",
"78790815", "75533975"]
for application_number in application_numbers:
result = t.getTSDRInfo(application_number, "s")
print(t.TSDRData.TSDRSingle["MarkVerbalElementText"])

Will display:

NO BUDDY
ESPEX
ZA
SPANISH
INQUISITION

New in this release:

* Support for USPTO API key. The USPTO recently instituted a requirement
that calls to TSDR require an API key, and the inability to specify one
broke Plumage. This is now fixed.

* By default, there is a one-second delay between TSDR calls, to comply
with the USPTO policy limiting calls to 60/minute. The length of the
delay can be modified by calling SetIntervalTime() (including setting
the delay to zero if you want to manage the timing yourself).

* By default, TSDR calls now default to requests for ST.96-format XML
files. Prior to V1.4.0, the default was for ZIP files. The USPTO limit
for zip files is tighter (4/minute) than for text XML (60/minute). The
primary benefit of getting a zip file is that it includes the trademark
specimen image. You porbably don't need it, but if you require image
data, you can continue to request ZIP files by calling
setPTOFormat("zip").

* New method GetMetainfo() allowing access to some metadata (not specific
to a particular TSDR call) without a call to the USPTO TSDR server.

* Additional status information about a particular mark is provided:

- StaffName: the PTO staff member to whom a trademark is assigned

- StaffOfficialTitle: the title of the assigned staff member

- Three new lists are reported, to provide information on a mark's
classification and dates of first use in each:

- InternationalClassDescriptionList: provides information on
international classification;

- DomesticClassDescriptionList: provides information on domestic
(US) classification; and

- FirstUseDateList: provides information on dates of first use on a
per-class basis

* Some changes on reported metadata.

* Support for Python 2 is DROPPED in this release.

Release details: https://github.com/codingatty/Plumage-py/releases/tag/V1.4.0 Docs: https://github.com/codingatty/Plumage/wiki/Plumage-Home
License: Apache Software License V2


--
Terry Carroll
carroll@tjc.com

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