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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#156082" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#156082">Hopefully, this is now permanently fixed since I suggested she try again on Monday morning their time.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="3" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;font-weight:bold">Alex Butterman<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> E-trademarks
<e-trademarks-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of
</span></b>Carl Oppedahl via E-trademarks<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, April 7, 2024 04:54 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> for trademark practitioners <e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> Carl Oppedahl <carl@oppedahl.com><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [EXT] [E-trademarks] TEAS is broken?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Aptos"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I tried to file a trademark application just now. Here is the rather unhelpful error message that TEAS provided:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Aptos"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><img border="0" width="517" height="183" style="width:5.3833in;height:1.9083in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.png@01DA893B.2AE027A0"></span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Aptos"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Then I tried again, and the error message changed to this:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Aptos"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><img border="0" width="508" height="167" style="width:5.2916in;height:1.7416in" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image004.png@01DA893B.2AE027A0"></span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Aptos"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I checked the USPTO system status page and it did not list any planned outage for today at this time. Those two USPTO failures happened when I was using Chrome. Then I tried the same thing in Edge,
and this was the error message:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Aptos"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><img border="0" width="590" height="247" style="width:6.15in;height:2.575in" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image005.png@01DA893B.2AE027A0"></span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Aptos"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I wonder if anybody is able to file a trademark application just now?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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