[Patentcenter] ADS issue with Patent Center

[Victoria OConnor]

Hello everyone - I had a new situation today that I thought I would inquire.  I had a provisional application today with 20+ inventors.  Almost all of them were in India.  Two of them had a first name only and no last name.  I tried loading the ADS but the USPTO required something in the last name field for the ADS to be accepted.  I tried a dash (what we do for a PCT Apn) but I got the generic "OK" error when I did that.  I also tried with the period in the field and got the same error.  I gave up and just ended up loading the ADS under the "No ADS/Attach ADS" option so that we can get things filed today.  I can only imagine the filing receipt correction I may have to file knowing the USPTO will have to manually type in all those names and addresses.

I wanted to ask if anyone has come across this scenario before, and if so, did you have a fix that worked?  If not, we may need to add this to the bug list, because it should at least accept a dash or something if there is no last name.  I know that isn't typical (this was a first for me), but it's not impossible either.

Thanks in advance and have a good weekend,
Victoria
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