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<p><i><b>Cumbersome login now required. </b></i>It used to be that
anybody could submit an assignment for recordation. Now you have
to do a cumbersome login with two-factor authentication. I
suspect this means the person doing the recordation session will
have previously been forced to do a Real ID or other invasive
prove-who-you-are procedure.</p>
<p><i><b>Stupid terminology.</b></i> The designer of son-of-ETAS
calls the recordation session "filing an application". When you
get ready to click "submit", you have to pay what are called
"application fees". This is nuts. <br>
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<p><i><b>No functional enhancements for the paying customer.</b></i>
After all this big talk about how wonderful this son-of-ETAS
system is going to be, I clicked around a bit to try to see what
functional enhancements it is going to provide. For example I
figured the least they would do is make it so that you can check
the status of a recordation submission. Nope. No enhancements of
any kind so far as I can see.</p>
<p><i><b>Blocks you from including an application number that was
recently filed. </b></i>It looks like if your recently filed
trademark application is not yet in TSDR, you will be blocked from
including it in your recordation submission.</p>
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