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I don't know if this is related or not, but this is the message on the TEAS payment screen today:</div>
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I did receive receipts on my two filings.</div>
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we only got client instructions late last night, so there’s zero margin for error.</span></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> [E-trademarks] TEAS Issue?</span></p>
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<p class="x_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!</p>
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