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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I received an office action in which one of the issues was that the entity designation reads as [??? entity.25 ???] and that we will have to designate the entity (also an AG).
I feel like a snarky comment in the response to the OA might be in order\u2026<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> E-trademarks <e-trademarks-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Carl Oppedahl via E-trademarks<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 31, 2025 12:13 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> for trademark practitioners <e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Carl Oppedahl <carl@oppedahl.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [E-trademarks] yet another bug in TEAS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:red">[<span style="text-transform:uppercase">CAUTION:</span> EXTERNAL EMAIL]</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>I am doing a trademark renewal (sections 71 and 15) for a client whose entity type is AG (Aktiengesellschaft). I click through the TEAS form and eventually reach the "owner information" page, at which it says:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Legal Entity Type: [??? entity.25 ???]<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>This is, of course, nuts. In the most recent version change for this TEAS form, some software developer screwed this up big time, and failed to do regression testing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>What it should say in the TEAS form is, of course:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Legal Entity Type: Aktiengesellschaft (AG)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>I guess for us paying customers of the USPTO, we are all beta testers, all the time, even when we do not know that we are beta testers.<o:p></o:p></p>
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