[E-trademarks] Trademark Center failures (was 2025 Trademark Fee Change Coincidence?)

Thu Jan 16 15:29:50 UTC 2025

Just looking at Trademark Center again -- it's remarkable, if not
surprising, to find there has been no update (or 'release') in nearly TWO
MONTHS. [https://trademarkcenter.uspto.gov/release-notes]
I guess it's perfect?
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On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 2:44 PM Kevin Grierson via E-trademarks <
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> Personally, if there are glitches in the process, I’d rather figure them
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> On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 4:37 AM Mark Kaufman via E-trademarks <
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> Is the collective wisdom to start “getting used to” the new system now, or
> wait to suffer and waste time after January 18 in the valiant hope that our
> thoughts will be heard from On High?
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> On Dec 18, 2024, at 5:33 AM, Carl Oppedahl via E-trademarks <
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> On 12/17/2024 6:07 PM, Patti Giuliano via E-trademarks wrote:
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> Having just used the new Beta application format for a few filings today,
> I think they should be paying us for this debacle of form.  I’ve been using
> it for a couple of months with little to no problems – even though the
> format is ridiculous and hard to review.  Today, two applications went
> through just fine.  The third one – not so much.  Twice it didn’t capture
> all the information (the information is on my “preview” copy but not on the
> emailed copy), I tried again, and the copy emailed to me was completely
> blank, and don’t get me started on the issues with the goods and services.
> Why does the USPTO like to change the order of the description?  You make a
> simple change, and it moves the phrase to the bottom of the list.  This
> just makes it harder to review.  If you need to make changes after you have
> emailed a draft to yourself, God be with you.  Warning:  there are things
> you cannot change after you have emailed a draft – like a matter number.
> Why?  Oh why?  What a nightmare.  Yes, I’m frustrated.
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> I just went through (suffered through) a trademark filing in Trademark
> Center with a client.
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> Over and over again I would fill in various fields (for example where the
> applicant is incorporated) and click through to later steps in the click
> path, and then send it to the client, and the version received by the
> client would be missing one or more of the fields.
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