[E-trademarks] between now and January 18

[Carl Oppedahl]

It will be recalled that the Trademark Office has announced the date 
that it will shut down the part of TEAS that is used for the filing of 
trademark applications, namely January 18, 2025.  I just now took 
another look at USPTO's Trademark Center.  I continue to feel that TC is 
not ready for production use across the board.  I continue to feel that 
the only legitimate use for TC is as a beta-test system.  I continue to 
be astonished that so far as I can see, nobody from the Trademark Office 
has engaged in meaningful dialogue with the practitioner community on 
pesky questions like what are the things that would have to change about 
TC for it to replace the part of TEAS that is used for the filing of 
trademark applications.

Anyway, here we are on December 3, with the announced shutdown of TC a 
mere six weeks away, and still there is an adhesion-contract check box 
on the second page of the TC workflow (quoted here).

I am aghast that a mere six weeks away from the planned shutdown of 
TEAS, I am forced to "agree that if [I'm] unable to complete [my] 
application in Trademark Center, [I] will use TEAS."

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