[E-trademarks] yet another bug in TEAS

[Thilo C. Agthe]

I received an office action in which one of the issues was that the entity designation reads as [??? entity.25 ???] and that we will have to designate the entity (also an AG).  I feel like a snarky comment in the response to the OA might be in order…

Best wishes,

Thilo



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Subject: [E-trademarks] yet another bug in TEAS


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I am doing a trademark renewal (sections 71 and 15) for a client whose entity type is AG (Aktiengesellschaft).  I click through the TEAS form and eventually reach the "owner information" page, at which it says:

Legal Entity Type: [??? entity.25 ???]

This is, of course, nuts.  In the most recent version change for this TEAS form, some software developer screwed this up big time, and failed to do regression testing.

What it should say in the TEAS form is, of course:

Legal Entity Type:  Aktiengesellschaft (AG)

I guess for us paying customers of the USPTO, we are all beta testers, all the time, even when we do not know that we are beta testers.
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