[E-trademarks] Premature end of file?

[Michael Brown]

I have had similar indecipherable errors, and my SOP is to save all
submissions before clicking on Submit, Send Email, Pay, or the like.

A related instability arises with uploading specimen files. Often, the
first time gives an error message, then I use the browser back button,
click Continue on the TEAS warning screen about false multiple windows, go
back a page in TEAS, then go forward and am then able to upload specimens.

Notifying teas @ uspto. gov did nothing.

Michael Brown
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On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 10:44 AM Tragesser, Joel via E-trademarks <
e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:

> I have encountered this error multiple times in the last few weeks.
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> And after waiting a few hours, I just recreated the form from the saved
> .OBJ file and was then able to email the link.
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> *From:* E-trademarks <e-trademarks-bounces at oppedahl-lists.com> *On Behalf
> Of *Carl Oppedahl via E-trademarks
> *Sent:* Friday, February 28, 2025 10:25 AM
> *To:* for trademark practitioners <e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com>
> *Cc:* Carl Oppedahl <carl at oppedahl.com>
> *Subject:* [E-trademarks] Premature end of file?
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> Hello listmates.  Seems to me that this has already been discussed but I
> can't find it.
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> 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.
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>    - detailed editing of the good and services
>    - fiddling with entity information
>    - entering a dozen fields of information to add myself as attorney
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> 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:
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> 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
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> 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:
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>    - 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
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> 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.
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> And yes, I dropped an email to "teas at uspto.gov" <teas at uspto.gov>.
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