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PTO Announces Change to TEAS e-Signature Approach

Here's a bit of inside baseball to perk up your week. On or about January 22, 2011, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will introduce a new approach for the e-signature process of the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS). See details here.Currently, the originator of the signature request uses Field 1 of the "E-Signature(s) Request Form" to provide the e-mail address of the intended signatory, and Field 2 to provide a personal message. The mailbox TEAS@uspto.gov attempts delivery of the signature request to the listed address. In the event that delivery is not successful, an "undeliverable" notice is bounced directly back to TEAS@uspto.gov, and not to the originator of the request. ***[T]he e-signature approach is being changed so that the e-mail address of the intended signatory will no longer be captured...continue to full post

Full post as published by The TTABlog on December 27, 2010 (boomark / email).