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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Lara Pearson via E-trademarks<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 19, 2024 12:24 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> For trademark practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek legal advice. <e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Lara Pearson <lara@brandgeek.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [E-trademarks] Trademark Center failures (was 2025 Trademark Fee Change Coincidence?)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is the collective wisdom to start \u201cgetting used to\u201d the new system now, or wait to suffer and waste time after January 18 in the valiant hope that our thoughts will be heard from On High?
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little to no problems \u2013 even though the format is ridiculous and hard to review. Today, two applications went through just fine. The third one \u2013 not so much. Twice it didn\u2019t capture all the information (the information is on my \u201cpreview\u201d copy but not on
the emailed copy), I tried again, and the copy emailed to me was completely blank, and don\u2019t get me started on the issues with the goods and services. Why does the USPTO like to change the order of the description? You make a simple change, and it moves the
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<p>I just went through (suffered through) a trademark filing in Trademark Center with a client.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Over and over again I would fill in various fields (for example where the applicant is incorporated) and click through to later steps in the click path, and then send it to the client, and the version received by the client would be missing one or more of
the fields.<o:p></o:p></p>
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