Do you love Patent Center, Too?

I was attempting to file a provisional application today in the USPTO’s no-longer-new-but-still-quite-buggy Patent Center filing system. I am glad I not up against a deadline today.

I logged in, and a “Search Limit Reached” error message immediately popped up, in response to me not entering any searches.  Strange, but okay, I’ll proceed.

I entered my ADS selection and basic biblio information.  Patent Center then advances you to the file upload screen.  I uploaded my spec and got a red “Unknown Error” message.  Strange, I again thought.  Maybe I had accidentally embedded a font or goofed something in the PDF conversion.  So I tried uploading my drawings.  Same error:

Pretty unhelpful error message.  I have no idea how to even begin searching the Internet for a specific solution to this problem.  Again, just glad I don’t have a filing deadline today.