[E-trademarks] some initial reactions to the USPTO's training slides for son-of-ETAS

[Carl Oppedahl]

/*Cumbersome login now required. */It used to be that anybody could 
submit an assignment for recordation.  Now you have to do a cumbersome 
login with two-factor authentication.  I suspect this means the person 
doing the recordation session will have previously been forced to do a 
Real ID or other invasive prove-who-you-are procedure.

/*Stupid terminology.*/  The designer of son-of-ETAS calls the 
recordation session "filing an application".  When you get ready to 
click "submit", you have to pay what are called "application fees".  
This is nuts.

/*No functional enhancements for the paying customer.*/ After all this 
big talk about how wonderful this son-of-ETAS system is going to be, I 
clicked around a bit to try to see what functional enhancements it is 
going to provide.  For example I figured the least they would do is make 
it so that you can check the status of a recordation submission.  Nope.  
No enhancements of any kind so far as I can see.

/*Blocks you from including an application number that was recently 
filed. */It looks like if your recently filed trademark application is 
not yet in TSDR, you will be blocked from including it in your 
recordation submission.

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