[E-trademarks] very difficult to do both 44d and 44e?

[Carl Oppedahl]

On 1/27/2025 1:01 PM, Michael Brown wrote:
> I assume from your post that your application only covered one class 
> for the 44e basis. Whereas TEAS allowed for an applicant to check one 
> or more boxes to assign a 44d or 44e basis to one or more classes of 
> goods and/or services, TC requires this step to be repeated for each 
> class.
>
> And, if for some reason you selected the wrong check box for a 44d 
> claim (saying that the applicant intends to rely upon the registration 
> basis, or that the applicant would rely on another basis instead of 
> the registration basis), there is no way to change that check box, 
> other than to delete the 44d claim and start all over again (at least 
> none that I could find).
Thank you.  Misery loves company, I guess.
>
> IMHO, for practitioners, TC increases the work to file applications by 
> at least 150%, and that does not account for the surcharges and 
> related information. Has anyone done a webpage count comparison 
> between the two?
I have only a few data points thus far, and of course a first filing or 
a second filing might be more or less complicated and might not be 
directly comparable as between TEAS or TC.  But yes from my few data 
points, there is no doubt that the work and time and aggravation with TC 
are all at least 150% worse than it was in TEAS.
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