[E-trademarks] Trademark Center pro se?

[Carl Oppedahl]

I wonder if somewhere in MyUSPTO it somehow knows I am an attorney, and 
then maybe once Trademark Center sees that I am logged in as an 
attorney, it eliminates the /pro se/ click path.

And if on the other hand the person who logs in at MyUSPTO is not known 
to the system to be an attorney, maybe then it permits a /pro se/ click 
path.

I don't know any of this for real.  I am just trying to guess about it.

On 7/17/2024 1:37 PM, Annette Heller via E-trademarks wrote:
> Doesn't everyone that is going to file need to register with Trademark 
> Office in order to access the forms?  Wasn't that the reason for 
> registration in order to avoid Chinese applicants from overloading the 
> system?
> Annette
>
> Annette P. Heller
> Trademark/Copyright Attorney
> TM Law & Associates
> 400 Chesterfield Center Ste 400
> Chesterfield [St Louis] MO 63017
>
> www.TrademarkAtty.com <http://www.trademarkatty.com/>
>
> 314-469-2610 Fax 314-469-4850
> In a message dated 7/17/2024 1:15:37 PM Central Daylight Time, 
> e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com writes:
>
>     A few days ago, for the very first time, I clicked around in
>     Trademark Center.  This was in a shared desktop situation where I
>     was helping somebody click around in it.  The person has a plan of
>     filing /pro se/ a few days from now.  So our goal was to click
>     around in Trademark Center together and see what the workflow is like.
>
>     I happened to be already logged in to MyUSPTO at the time.  And I
>     clicked around to commence use of Trademark Center.   I was
>     sharing my screen with the would-be future /pro se/ filer.
>
>     What jumped out at me was, it absolutely refused to allow the
>     session to move forward /pro se/. It demanded that an attorney be
>     identified for the to-be-filed application.
>
>     Maybe others have more experience with Trademark Center.  Is there
>     a way to use Trademark Center /pro se/?
>
>     Is it simply that I had already been logged in at MyUSPTO?  That
>     was what made it impossible to proceed /pro se/?
>
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