To copy registrations or prior pendings for 2(d) purposes, simply use the TRAM Cites program. Before you actually begin with the program, you need a place to put the evidence. Therefore, you should create a folder on your C drive for storing the images you will be creating. "C:|Aevidence" is a good name for the folder. Why "Aevidence" and not just "evidence" you ask? Adding an "A" to the beginning of the folder name makes the folder easy to find since the computer alphabetizes folders when displaying them in a list.

To add a folder or sub-folder, open "My Computer" or "Windows Explorer." Double click on the folder which your new folder will be under, in this case "C." Then click on the "FILE" pull-down menu (top, left), select "NEW," then "FOLDER." A new folder, named "NEW FOLDER" will appear in the list. Type in the new name - "Aevidence" - in this case. Hit the "Enter" key and you're finished. You can rename a folder by right clicking on the folder, and selecting "RENAME."

Once you have created that "Aevidence" folder, you are ready to use TRAM Cites.

To access TRAM cites, double-click on the icon that should be located on your desktop that looks like this:

If you don't have it, call the Help Desk at 305-9000 and ask them to install it. Once the program has opened, click on the "Aevidence" folder that you created on your C drive so that

1. the small yellow folder icon looks open; and

2. the name of it is highlighted in blue. Then hit OK.

This is how you inform the program where you would like the images it creates to be stored. You will need to do this each time you open TRAM Cites. [Those of you in the Trademarks Work At Home program will obviously want to save these images on either the CV drive or H drive or whatever network drive the technical support people have set aside for you.]

Now either hit the F5 key or choose File, Open from the top left corner of the window. Now type either the application number or registration number of the cite that you want. TRAM Cites will now pull the data up in a format that looks somewhat like a cross between X-Search and a pub review printout. This format has been approved by the Commissioner's office to be a direct substitute for a print-out from X-search even though it does look a bit different. Now either hit the F6 key or choose File, Capture from the top left corner of the window. The program will now create a jpg image of each page of the data in the folder that you selected when you opened the program initially, which should be "Aevidence". You can now repeat this process for as many different cites as you need to without ever having to close TRAM Cites.

Once you have created your e-mail Office Action to send to the applicant, you then simply add as attachment(s) the image(s) that have been created in the folder Aevidence, just as you would attach any file off your computer. Be sure to attach each separate image to your message before sending if TRAM Cites created more than one image for that cite. For more help with TRAM Cites, be sure and use the excellent Help folder that you can access from the top menu of the program.

To add dictionary definitions from Bookshelf Basics, simply pull up the word in Bookshelf that you want, highlight the parts of the definition that you want to copy, right click on the highlighted section and choose Copy from the pull down menu. In your Word document, you then simply right click and choose Paste to pop it in, footnote and all.

First, if you have FAST, you must set up your computer to allow for Lexis/Nexis^® evidence to be cut and pasted into your documents. Here's how to do that. Once you've set it up, everything should work from that point on.

In order to attach Lexis/Nexis ^® articles, you will need to save your search to your C drive rather than print it out. This is easy to do. First off, create a folder on your C drive to store these searches. Call the folder "Lexis" searches, or, even easier, you can save the evidence in your "Aevidence" folder which you've already made.

If you are using the dial-up connection to Lexis/Nexis^® on your desktop, you do the following. When you have reviewed your search and marked off the stories that you want to 'print' and are requesting that they be printed, be sure to check the box in the upper right corner that says File and uncheck the box that says Attached printer in the lower left corner. Now use the small black down arrow on the right side of the Save in: box to select the location that you want to save to (in this case, C:\Aevidence). Be sure and give your document a name in the Name: box and then hit OK. Your search will now be saved to this folder in a format that you can view using Word.

To "attach" this evidence, open the file from within Word, highlight all of the data that you want to send from the saved search you did, choose Edit and then Copy and then paste it at the end of your Office Action, below the response guidelines that appear below your signature.

If you are using Lexis.com on the Internet, the first thing you do is sign in. Your Lexis/Nexis^® ID is the alphanumeric combination that you use to sign in and your password is probably your last name. It may also include your first initial if your last name is faily common. When you are finished reviewing the stories and know which ones you want to include as evidence, click on the hyperlink in the upper right corner of the screen that says "Download."

Select the Document View properties that you want;

1. Select the Document Range that you want (which actual documents you want printed);

2. Select the Page Options that you want;

3. Select the Font Options (and what you want done with the search terms);

4. It defaults to a Word document so you don't have to do anything with the format type;

5. Click the download the button;

6. Follow the instructions that show up from there onscreen and then follow the instuctions in the paragraph above that starts with "To 'attach' this evidence..."

To capture Internet evidence (web pages, etc.), or anything else you can see on your computer, you can use SnagIt ^® . This program enables you to capture entire web pages (or just parts of them) as .jpg images for use as attachable evidence. To access this program, double-click on the SnagIt ^® icon located on your desktop. It looks like this:

If you don't have SnagIt ^® , you know what to do: call the Help Desk at 305-9000 and ask them to install it.

When you first open SnagIt ^® it will default to a "Wizard" view. You don't want this. Get rid of it by clicking the "close" button. To get started, you first need to set a few things up. You will only have to do this the first time you open SnagIt ^® - once you set up SnagIt ^® you will never have to do this again. Here's what you do:

• Click "Input" drop-down menu and be sure "window" has a bullet next to it, and "Auto-Scroll" has a check mark. so that it looks like this:
  

• Click the "Output" drop-down menu and be sure "file" has a bullet next to it, and "Preview Window" has a check mark so that it looks like this:
  

• Finally, still in the Output drop-down menu, select "Properties." Select the tab that says "Image file." Now highlight the selection on the right listing that reads JPG- JPEG Image. Now click on the small gray box to the right of the down arrow near the box labeled Output Folder in the lower right corner. Browse through the folders on your computer until you find the one where you want the images to be saved. The Aevidence file is fine. See below.

Click the button labeled "Apply" and then the OK button. You're done. You won't have to do that again. Power user tip: SnagIt ^® contains a host of variables that you can set to perform various functions and is well worth learning about them by working/playing with it. But the 3 step setup above is all you really need to capture web pages.

Like all Windows programs, when saving things, SnagIt ^® will default to the last folder you used, so if you always use your Aevidence folder in SnagIt ^® , it should always open for you.

To use SnagIt ^® , Open the web page you are interested in, then open SnagIt ^® on top of your browser. Click the red "capture" button. SnagIt ^® will disappear, and the cursor will turn into a little hand with the index finger pointing up. As you move the cursor over the screen, SnagIt ^® will draw colored lines around pictures, frames, windows, etc. To capture a screen shot of the web page (if you do not need anything more than what appears on the screen), simply place the cursor in the upper right corner of the web page so that a highlighted bar appears around the whole page and click your mouse button. SnagIt ^® will capture the entire browser program displaying the web page, including your browser's buttons and the location bar containing the URL, and turn it into a .jpg image. Now save your image by clicking the Finish button (the one with a green check mark on it), and it will default to the Aevidence folder that you set up. Just give your file a name and it will be saved in the Aevidence folder along with your TramCites evidence.

To enable the program to capture an entire scrolling web page (not just what you see on your screen but the entire web page), do exactly the same thing you did above. If you move the cursor over the portion of the browser which is displaying the web page, SnagIt ^® will recognize that there is material not visible on the screen and will "auto-scroll" down and save the entire page. Note that in this case, SnagIt ^® will not save the Browser header including the buttons and location bar containing the URL. It will only save the web page itself. Now click the Finish button (green check mark). Give the file a name and hit the Save button.

You can attach evidence that you created with SnagIt ^® quickly and easily just like you did with TRAM cites. This program also has an excellent Help file that you can access from the Help drop-down menu.

When you click on the Attachments button in Word, it will display a new window that lets you manage the images associated with a particular Office Action. The window looks like this:

Using the buttons along the top, you can reorder, add, delete, rename and print any image files that you have associated with a particular Office Action. Clicking the right mouse button while you are in either of the panes of the Window will also open menus that provide the same functions as the buttons.

• The Up and Down arrow buttons allow you to reorder the images associated with an Office Action. Simply click on any of the image files listed in the left window pane and then use the Up and Down arrows to move the image higher or lower on the list. The order of the list on the left window pane is the order that the files will 1) be attached to your action in TICRS; and 2) be attached to any outgoing e-mail that you may send.
  

• The Add button allows to you browse any of the folders on any of the local or network drives that you can access to attach additional jpg files that you may already have saved. This comes in handy if you need to reuse evidence that you created and saved from another application. It also lets you add more than one image at a time. To do this, simply use any of the standard window methods to select multiple image files, e.g. you may hold down the control key (Ctrl) and click on individual images, or select one image and then while holding down the Shift Key, select another image further down in the list. All the images between the two selected images will added to the selection.
  

• The Delete button allows you to sever the connection between an image and the Office Action. It does NOT actually remove the file from the folder for good, it merely removes it from this particular action. Simply click on any of the image files listed in the left window pane and then use the Delete button to remove them.
  

• The Rename button allows you to change the name of any of the image files. As an example, if you wanted to change the name of a 2d cite from the default that is created in TRAM Cites (e.g. 75123456P001OF1) to something easier to work with (2d Cite; The Mark; etc.) you simply click on any of the image files listed in the left window pane and then click the Rename button. When a window pops up, you simply type in the new file name that you want to assign and hit OK. This will NOT overwrite or delete the original file name but will create a NEW file with the new name.
  

• The Print button allows you to print any of the image files in case you wanted a hard copy to review, show someone, etc. It also automatically reformats any scrolling images created using SnagIt ^® into separate full pages, instead of printing a single, long, thin page showing the entire image.
  

• The Save button allows you to save the association that you have created between the images and the Office Action so that any work you have done in renaming, reordering, adding, etc. will not be lost. The Refresh button updates any associations you may have made recently. The Exit button closes the Attachment Manager window and returns you to your Word document.

You may find something in another application file in TICRS that you want to use in your own Office Action. Here's how to copy it so that you can use it.

• Open the letter or document that you want to use in TICRS.

• Click the button in the upper right corner that reads OCR so that it changes to read Display and the letters OCR show up below it in red.

• Highlight the section of the letter or document that you want to copy so that it is white letters surrounded by blue bands. (Just place the cursor at the beginning of the part you want to use, click the right mouse button and hold it while you scroll over the entire part you want to use and then release the button.)

• Now go to your Word document and just paste (click on the little clipboard button or select Edit and then Paste, or use the Ctrl and V keys). What you highlighted in TICRS will just pop right in.

The following steps will enable you to choose the default folder for the Attachments button in Word so that it will go to 'Aevidence' or whichever folder you choose each and every time you seek to add an attachment to an Office Action.

In Word:

• Choose Tools on the top menu bar, then choose Options and then choose the File Location tab.

• Double click on the entry in the box that reads "clipart pictures" - this will open up a window called "Modify Location".

• Now use the small box at the top (with the gray arrow pointing down next to it; see below) to navigate to the directory and folder you would like Word to use each time you want to

• insert an image. (i.e. add an attachment).

• Now double-click on the folder that you want so that its address shows up in the folder name box near the bottom of the window, e.g. C:/Aevidence as below.

• Now just hit the OK button and then when you are back at the Options window, hit the OK button again. Now Word will default to that folder each time you seek to add an attachment.