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These seems to me to be working as intended. You have a duty to
respond completely in your first response ("An application will be
abandoned if an applicant fails to respond to an Office action, <i><b>or
to respond completely</b></i>, within the relevant time period
for response," 37 CFR § 2.65). AFAIK you have never been able to
send a second response to an Office Action. You can file a
Preliminary Statement before you get an Office Action, but once you
filed a response you don't get to file anything further until you
get another Office Action. That's always been the case, with the
added gloss now that you can't file an extension after you filed a
response either.<br>
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I would be surprised though if they actually abandoned the
application due to an incomplete response. Has it happened to
anyone?<br>
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Pam<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/21/2025 3:27 PM, Gerry J. Elman
via E-trademarks wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century
Schoolbook",serif;color:black">Does anyone know of a
workaround?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Schoolbook",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century
Schoolbook",serif;color:black">Is this yet another
example of inadequate beta testing?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century
Schoolbook",serif;color:black">An individual filed a
trademark application pro se. She received an Action from
a trademark examining attorney that refused the application
as filed. She then engaged me to take over prosecution. It
was agreed that I would interview the Examining Attorney and
then decide whether to seek an extension of time, since we
are almost at the 3-month deadline from the date of the
Action.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century
Schoolbook",serif;color:black">To provide a basis for
the EA to speak with me about the case, I immediately
\u201centered my appearance\u201d in the case by filing an
\u201cincomplete\u201d Response to the OA. I was able to provide my
contact information to add an attorney to the case where
none had previously trod. Then I interviewed the EA and
told him that I\u2019d be seeking an extension to file a written
response.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century
Schoolbook",serif;color:black">But upon seeking to
submit electronically a Request for Extension of Time, up
popped an error message blocking me from proceeding, saying
it deemed my entry of appearance to be a Response to the
Action, implying that the extension of time would be
superfluous. A<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century
Schoolbook",serif;color:black">And then when I sought
to file a supplemental Response, the system also blocked me,
announcing that a Final Action hadn\u2019t yet been issued. (Is
there now a rule preventing an applicant from supplementing
a Response on further thought?) So I\u2019m in the anomalous
position where the government is refusing to take my
client\u2019s payment for the needed extension of time, and I am
concerned that the application might be declared abandoned
when the 3-month deadline passes. Any suggestions? <i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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