I qouted the Trademark system, but the office system says the same thing.

<(4) Office electronic filing system (EFS-Web). Correspondence may
be submitted using the Office electronic filing system only in
accordance with the Office's electronic filing system requirements.
Correspondence submitted to the Office by way of the Office's
electronic filing system will be accorded a receipt date, which is the
date the correspondence is received at the correspondence address for
the Office set forth in Sec. 1.1 when it was officially submitted.>

If EFS-Web was used and August 24th is the receipt date, the submission is late. IMHO anyway.

Opty