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<p class="MsoNormal">Anyone else having trouble filing applications with the USPTO this morning? We keep getting different errors causing us to restart the application, losing all the work put in, and it’s maddening!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Every day this site gets worse….<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks in advance for your input!<o:p></o:p></p>
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