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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello everyone – I had a new situation today that I thought I would inquire. I had a provisional application today with 20+ inventors. Almost all of them were in India. Two of them had a first name only and no last name. I tried loading
the ADS but the USPTO required something in the last name field for the ADS to be accepted. I tried a dash (what we do for a PCT Apn) but I got the generic “OK” error when I did that. I also tried with the period in the field and got the same error. I gave
up and just ended up loading the ADS under the “No ADS/Attach ADS” option so that we can get things filed today. I can only imagine the filing receipt correction I may have to file knowing the USPTO will have to manually type in all those names and addresses.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I wanted to ask if anyone has come across this scenario before, and if so, did you have a fix that worked? If not, we may need to add this to the bug list, because it should at least accept a dash or something if there is no last name.
I know that isn’t typical (this was a first for me), but it’s not impossible either.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks in advance and have a good weekend,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Victoria<o:p></o:p></p>
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