[E-trademarks] ETAS not working

Tue Jan 21 21:28:16 UTC 2025

ETAS was shut down a month ago or so.  Now the only option is to use 
Assignment Center.

On 1/21/2025 2:02 PM, Louis Levy via E-trademarks wrote:
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> Is anyone else unable to connect with ETAS?
>
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> *From:*E-trademarks <e-trademarks-bounces at oppedahl-lists.com> *On 
> Behalf Of *Laura Geyer via E-trademarks
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 21, 2025 1:18 PM
> *To:* For trademark practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek 
> legal advice. <e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com>
> *Cc:* Laura Geyer <lgeyer at ndgallilaw.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [E-trademarks] no registration certificates today?
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> It does not mean that. A lot of them will effectively have to quit, 
> which will mean that hundreds of new examiners will need to be hired 
> and trained. They’ll have to because many were hired specifically to 
> work remotely, and many are the “second” income in their homes, 
> meaning that the primary earner is unlikely to be able to relocate or 
> if in the DC area, might suddenly have an unsustainable commute.
>
> Also there’s no room for them at the moment, so the PTO will need to 
> get a lot more office space very quickly unless they intend to wait 
> until they know how many employees have no choice but to quit.
>
> And I just heard from a number of relations and friends that there is 
> a broad hiring freeze, so that could hamper hiring replacements.
>
> So who knows?
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> *Laura Talley Geyer*| *Of Counsel*
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> *From:*E-trademarks <e-trademarks-bounces at oppedahl-lists.com> *On 
> Behalf Of *Paul Supnik via E-trademarks
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 21, 2025 1:04 PM
> *To:* For trademark practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek 
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> *Cc:* Paul Supnik <paul at supnik.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [E-trademarks] no registration certificates today?
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> So does this mean that the backlog of trademark applications will slip 
> another 6 months or so when the remote Examining Attorneys will be 
> forced to move back to the DC area, forgoing the opportunity to spend 
> most of their time working remotely?  I suspect not everyone will be 
> happy with this and the Office will need to retrain a whole new batch 
> of Examining Attorneys.
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> Paul D. Supnik 9454 Wilshire Blvd, Ste 550 Beverly Hills, CA 90212 
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> *From:*E-trademarks <e-trademarks-bounces at oppedahl-lists.com> on 
> behalf of Laura A. Genovese via E-trademarks 
> <e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 21, 2025 9:28 AM
> *To:* For trademark practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek 
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> *Cc:* Laura A. Genovese <lgenovese at kassgen.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [E-trademarks] no registration certificates today?
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> Yes, and it has the new signature.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: E-trademarks <e-trademarks-bounces at oppedahl-lists.com> On Behalf 
> Of Carl Oppedahl via E-trademarks
> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2025 12:23 PM
> To: for trademark practitioners <e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com>
> Cc: Carl Oppedahl <carl at oppedahl.com>
> Subject: [E-trademarks] no registration certificates today?
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> Hello fellow trademark practitioners.  See 
> https://blog.oppedahl.com/yes-she-must-be-running-the-uspto-now/ . As 
> far as I can see, somebody at the USPTO must have yanked all of the 
> trademark registration certificates that were supposed to issue today, 
> that bear Derrick Brent's signature.  And now maybe they are 
> scrambling to create and cryptographically sign new ones with the 
> signature of the new Acting Director.
>
> Has anybody actually seen any registration certificate yet today?
>
> Carl
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