USPTO’s Trademark Center is broken for logo applications

January 18, 2025 was the day that the USPTO shut down TEAS for the filing of new US trademark applications.  Starting that day, the only way to file a US trademark application has been Trademark Center.

And now, as of a couple of days ago, Trademark Center has been broken for trademark applications in which the mark is a logo (rather than standard characters).  The practitioner prepares the application and sends it to the client for review and possible e-signature.   The client clicks on the link to review the application, and within seconds, Trademark Center jumps abruptly to its main page.  It is impossible for the client to review or e-sign the application.

This was first reported two days ago by an alert trademark practitioner in the E-Trademarks Listerv, which is a community of over a thousand trademark practitioners.

Vegetative electron microscopy

I am fascinated to learn that the term “vegetative electron microscopy” is starting to pop up in published academic papers.  And that there is no such thing as “vegetative electron microscopy”.  It seems that some early AI systems picked up this term as a sort of OCR scanning error.  And now lots of present-day AI systems keep repeating the term to each other.  And now maybe the term will never go away.