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<p>Hello listmates. Seems to me that this has already been
discussed but I can't find it.</p>
<p>I am trying to respond to an Office Action in TEAS. This is the
usual long and detailed kind of response that you would never want
to have to do twice. <br>
</p>
<ul>
<li>detailed editing of the good and services</li>
<li>fiddling with entity information</li>
<li>entering a dozen fields of information to add myself as
attorney</li>
</ul>
<p>I laboriously arrive at the "send the email to myself" thing so
that I can then forward it to the foreign instructing counsel for
review. I click "send" and what I see next is:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Application Exceptions<br>
Error on line -1: Premature end of file.<br>
Reference Id:
USPTO/ROA-2601:nnn:8200:eff:5de8:nnnn:5c6b:ba3-20250228100935630672-79396649-8906c69dnnnnnn3d6c52b2dbc9073d11f976e1ee9480e9c015ececee754fab3d83</p>
</blockquote>
<p>A first comment here is that I think of this error message as a
value subtractor. It just uses up electrons and wastes the time
of the reader. Nothing in this error message does any of the
normal things that we would wish for an error message to do:</p>
<ul>
<li>it is absolutely silent on what exactly went wrong</li>
<li>It says nothing whatsover about what the filer supposedly did
wrong, or what the filer would need to have done differently to
get things to work</li>
<li>It gives no hint as to what the filer ought to do next</li>
</ul>
<p>I fear that I will end up having to do all of my laborious work
all over again. It will suck up at least twenty minutes of my
time, and doing the work all over again introduces the risk of
mistakes getting introduced into the situation. <br>
</p>
<p>And yes, I dropped an email to <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:teas@uspto.gov">"teas@uspto.gov"</a>. <br>
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