[E-trademarks] FW: Try Trademark Center beta

[Neil R. Ormos]

Kevin Grierson wrote:
>>> [Kevin Grierson wrote:]

>>>> Have to shake my head at the top feature they
>>>> tout on this email for the new TM Center--"a
>>>> mobile-friendly design"?!?  [...]

> I mean, I'm sure that there are examples of
> programmers designing a UI who were more out of
> touch with their user base, but I honestly can't
> think of any offhand.

Try Patent Center and you will be able to think of some.

For example, early on, when Patent Center would display a table of applications, the most important columns would be omitted on narrow monitors, and there were no horizontal scrollbars.  At the time, Carl O. suggested that the developers likely had several large monitors and did not imagine that any users had less.  State-of-mind aside, as deployed in production, the UI design was not responsive to smaller displays and had not been tested with them.  (For those keeping score: Patent Center bug CP97, <https://patentcenter-tickets.oppedahl.com/#CP97> .)

>>>> Maybe I'm just a dinosaur, but are any of you
>>>> preparing and filing trademark applications
>>>> from your smartphone?

Pro-se applicants are the tail that wags the dog.