[E-trademarks] USPTO proposing fee increases

[Pamela Chestek]

On 3/25/2024 3:21 PM, Kevin Grierson via E-trademarks wrote:
> Additional charges for descriptions over 1K characters per class.
This is the part that frosts me. I've had refusals where the ID is, for 
example, Communication services, namely, transmission of voice, audio, 
visual images, and data." You get an office action that says "not good 
enough, what are the actual transmission service types?" So you list 
everything you can think of because it's all of them - cellular 
networks, wireless networks, POTS, "the Internet," bluetooth, whatever, 
all the ways one computer can talk to another, both describing it as the 
actual technology or the layperson's terms for it ("the Internet 
<https://idm-tmng.uspto.gov/public-view-record.html?referrer=public&recordId=38927>" 
- WTF, how is that a transmission medium?). God forbid you miss one, 
because then it's an ah-hah moment for your opponent. So you just added 
200 characters to your ID because of a requirement that adds exactly 
zero information and doesn't change the scope, just a lot of words. And 
you'll probably have to add it to each item, getting you past 1000 
characters per class in a heartbeat.

It is, for sure, a tax on tech because of the excruciating detail they 
require.

Pam

Pamela S. Chestek
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