[E-trademarks] Premature end of file?

[Carl Oppedahl]

Hello listmates.  Seems to me that this has already been discussed but I 
can't find it.

I am trying to respond to an Office Action in TEAS.  This is the usual 
long and detailed kind of response that you would never want to have to 
do twice.

  * detailed editing of the good and services
  * fiddling with entity information
  * entering a dozen fields of information to add myself as attorney

I laboriously arrive at the "send the email to myself" thing so that I 
can then forward it to the foreign instructing counsel for review.  I 
click "send" and what I see next is:

    Application Exceptions
    Error on line -1: Premature end of file.
    Reference Id:
    USPTO/ROA-2601:nnn:8200:eff:5de8:nnnn:5c6b:ba3-20250228100935630672-79396649-8906c69dnnnnnn3d6c52b2dbc9073d11f976e1ee9480e9c015ececee754fab3d83

A first comment here is that I think of this error message as a value 
subtractor.  It just uses up electrons and wastes the time of the 
reader.  Nothing in this error message does any of the normal things 
that we would wish for an error message to do:

  * it is absolutely silent on what exactly went wrong
  * It says nothing whatsover about what the filer supposedly did wrong,
    or what the filer would need to have done differently to get things
    to work
  * It gives no hint as to what the filer ought to do next

I fear that I will end up having to do all of my laborious work all over 
again.  It will suck up at least twenty minutes of my time, and doing 
the work all over again introduces the risk of mistakes getting 
introduced into the situation.

And yes, I dropped an email to "teas at uspto.gov".

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