[E-trademarks] [EXT] Re: Duplicating applications in the new Trademark Center

[Alex Butterman]

Yes, I asked my paralegal about that address book feature, thinking that is how she loaded the AOR info into the application and she said she just hand-inputted it. So that is still a mystery to us. I tried going into MyUSPTO to see if it ties into that, but I did not see options to list our addresses with bar numbers. I thought I recalled that working during the beta test.

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Subject: [EXT] Re: [E-trademarks] Duplicating applications in the new Trademark Center


Exactly.  Thank you for posting.

The way this looks to me is that the user of Trademark Center needs to have a crystal ball good enough to predict that the instant you click "submit", you will lose the ability to save drafts and make duplicates of drafts.

Or the user learns the hard way about this user-unfriendly "feature" of TC, and after a few hard knocks, the user figures out that what the user must do is plan ahead and make (seemingly unneeded) extra duplicate copies of draft applications.  One for each client, or more than one for each client depending on various combinations of goods and services.

Of course it would help if I were able to figure out how to use the "address book" feature of TC.  This feature, if only I could figure out how to use it, might be of some help when I need to set up a new application from scratch.  But so far I have not figured it out.
On 2/27/2025 8:44 AM, Kelcey Patrick-Ferree via E-trademarks wrote:
Yes, this is basically what I've been doing, except I'm just leaving a draft in the Drafts tab permanently labeled "Client X Info" for each of my frequent filers. That way I have the info prefilled and ready to go when needed by making a copy of it. I just have to remember to go in and fill out the reference number for each new application.

Warm regards,
Kelcey


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On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 11:03 AM Clarkin, Cheryl via E-trademarks <e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com<mailto:e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com>> wrote:
I just filed several applications on behalf of the same client.  My workaround was to:

Start application and save as draft prior to payment
I then went back to drafts, selected the saved draft, and selected “save as new draft” under “Actions”
I then edited the draft to change the mark name and continued to payment
My original draft stays under “drafts and dockets” but the second draft that was filed disappears.
I still have the original draft that I can “save as a new draft” again to then file another application.

Hope that helps.

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Subject: [E-trademarks] Duplicating applications in the new Trademark Center


Is there a way to duplicate an application in the USPTO Trademark Center after it has been filed?  The only links I see are to TSDR and all of “drafts” in “My Drafts” are blank even though each application I prepare gets “saved” to drafts after each step.  Then they are gone after they are filed.




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