Adobe Sign now does not work properly for my application

Here’s a fun experiment to show Adobe exactly how badly they’ve messed up Adobe Sign.

 

Download the inventor declaration from the USPTO's website.  Do this by searching for "USPTO AIA 001 form," and you can get a link to the form.

 

Open the downloaded form. Insert the name of a person as the inventor. Any name will do! Now save it as “Document 1” or whatever. Open the downloaded form again. Insert a different name of a person as the inventor. Now save it with a different filename, say “Document 2." So now you have two saved versions, each with a different inventor name inserted, right? The documents started from the same place, but as saved, they are DIFFERENT. They have DIFFERENT INVENTOR NAMES IN THEM, right?

 

Now, go to Adobe Sign. Make a “binder” that includes both of the documents you saved. Begin to insert information to allow the inventors to sign.

 

What’s that, you say? The names on the two documents in the binder are now exactly the same? What????? That would be incredibly stupid, and a major showstopper of a bug, wouldn’t it???? As in, this product now does not function for this use?????

 

Old Adobe Sign did not do this. New Adobe Sign has been doing it since the beginning, which is why customers were not using it. But now you have forced new Adobe Sign onto your customers, so it is USELESS for my needs.

 

Could I create separate binders for each inventor? Yes, but I ALSO have to post a single assignment document for their signatures.

 

So what are my options?

 

(1) Separate binders for each inventor. 3x the work for me as before, and in addition, now I have do combine three separately-signed assignments into one for filing. Dumb.

(2) Use Docusign.

 

Which do you think is more appealing to me?

 

Adobe is seriously THE WORST company.