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    Your shorthand of the statute took me off-guard. It says "An
    assignment shall be void against any subsequent purchaser for
    valuable consideration without notice, unless the prescribed
    information reporting the assignment is recorded in the United
    States Patent and Trademark Office within 3 months after the date of
    the assignment or prior to the subsequent purchase." So it's not
    that the assignment has to be recorded within three months or its
    invalid or anything like that, but you might lose your ownership if
    the original assignor subsequently assigns the same mark to someone
    else and you haven't recorded before the second transfer and the
    second transfer is not within three months of the original transfer.<br>
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    Pam<br>
    <br>
    <div class="moz-signature">Pamela S. Chestek<br>
      Chestek Legal<br>
      4641 Post St.<br>
      Unit 4316<br>
      El Dorado Hills, CA 95762<br>
      +1 919-800-8033<br>
      <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pamela@chesteklegal.com">pamela@chesteklegal.com</a><br>
      <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.chesteklegal.com">www.chesteklegal.com</a><br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/16/2025 12:55 AM, Carl Oppedahl
      via E-trademarks wrote:<br>
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    <blockquote type="cite"
      cite="mid:06a4fab4-f763-41bb-8f94-ea8120704fca@oppedahl.com">
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      <p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Libre
          Franklin&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, helvetica, arial,
          sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;
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          text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style:
          initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
          !important; float: none;">It will be recalled that assignments
          need to be recorded within three months of the date of
          execution (35 U.S. Code § 261, 15 U.S. Code § 1060).  If you
          happen to have in hand an assignment that was executed on July
          16, 2025, then it needs to be recorded by today, October 16,
          2025.  It looks to me as though it is impossible to do such a
          recordation today, given that the USPTO has shut down
          Assignment Center.</span></p>
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          Franklin&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, helvetica, arial,
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          text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style:
          initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
          !important; float: none;">See <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://blog.oppedahl.com/every-uspto-system-relating-to-assignments-is-broken-today/">blog
            article</a>.</span></p>
      <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/27/2025 2:50 AM, Carl Oppedahl
        via Patentpractice wrote:<br>
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        cite="mid:edd917b3-c089-45ef-8e8e-fa895a6dc798@oppedahl.com">
        <p>Well, the USPTO seems to have blinked.  The upheaval
          scheduled for September 27 has apparently been postponed until
          October 20.  See <a
href="https://blog.oppedahl.com/uspto-blinks-on-shutdown-of-familiar-assignment-searches/"
            moz-do-not-send="true">blog article</a>.</p>
        <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/27/2025 3:13 PM, Carl Oppedahl
          via Patentpractice wrote:<br>
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        <blockquote type="cite"
          cite="mid:732f8acc-79a8-4eeb-8975-da97273de72d@oppedahl.com">
          <p>I think there is a typo in the headline and opening
            sentences.   What they meant to write is:</p>
          <blockquote>
            <p><b>Things will be miserable on September 27</b></p>
            <p>All of the existing ways of searching for assignments
              will get shut down on September 27.  A successor system
              that has never been beta-tested will be turn on on
              September 27.  It won't work right.  </p>
            <p>The new system will be harder to use and will require
              that you log in and use two-factor authentication, even
              when searching for information that is a matter of public
              record.</p>
            <p>For a user who is trying to look up assignment
              information for a PCT application, it will fail.</p>
            <p>For a user who is trying to look up assignment
              information for a Hague application, it will fail.</p>
            <p>The new system will fail to correctly match up a
              recordation against a PCT number with the corresponding US
              national-phase application number.</p>
            <p>The new system will fail to correctly match up a
              recordation against a US national-phase application number
              with the corresponding PCT number.</p>
            <p>The new system will fail to correctly match up a
              recordation against a  Hague number with the corresponding
              US designation (35-series) application number.</p>
            <p>The new system will fail to correctly match up a
              recordation against a US designation (35-series)
              application number with the corresponding Hague number.</p>
            <p>For a user who is trying to look up assignment
              information for an application that has not been published
              it will fail.</p>
            <p>Within a week or two, it will be discovered that the new
              system has bugs that reveal applicant information that is
              not supposed to be revealed, and parts of the new system
              will have to be shut down abruptly.</p>
            <p>Weeks will pass before most of the bugs and defects in
              the successor system are more or less corrected.  Even
              after half a year some bugs and defects will not have been
              corrected.</p>
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          <p><b><br>
            </b></p>
          <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/27/2025 12:41 PM, U.S.
            Patent and Trademark Office wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:01000198ecd61ac8-0edaff98-b019-4408-a805-cafcfccf4819-000000@us-east-1.messagingfabric.com">
            <title> USPTO enhances assignment records search process </title>
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                                                <h1>News Brief</h1>
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                                                  <p><span
                                                      data-contrast="none">The
                                                      U.S. Patent and
                                                      Trademark Office
                                                      (USPTO) is
                                                      streamlining the
                                                      overall assignment
                                                      search experience
                                                      by replacing two
                                                      legacy search
                                                      applications\u2014Patent
                                                      Assignment Search
                                                      and Assignments on
                                                      the Web\u2014with one,
                                                      more reliable,
                                                      secure, and easy
                                                      to use Assignment
                                                      Search
                                                      application.</span><span
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                                                  <p><span
                                                      data-contrast="none">Starting
                                                      on September 27,
                                                      2025, Assignment
                                                      Search will be
                                                      live, and the two
                                                      legacy systems
                                                      will cease to be
                                                      available. This
                                                      new, web-based
                                                      application
                                                      provides customers
                                                      seeking patent and
                                                      trademark
                                                      assignment
                                                      information with
                                                      reliable, detailed
                                                      results via a
                                                      modernized
                                                      interface.
                                                      Customers can
                                                      perform basic
                                                      searches and
                                                      refine their
                                                      searches using the
                                                      filtering options
                                                      available in the
                                                      \u201cadvanced search\u201d
                                                      field of the tool.</span><span
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                                                  <p><span
                                                      data-contrast="none">To
                                                      improve the
                                                      customer
                                                      experience, all
                                                      previous
                                                      assignment
                                                      services will be
                                                      centrally located
                                                      in Assignment
                                                      Center. The new
                                                      Assignment Search
                                                      application can be
                                                      found in </span><strong><span
data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink"><a
href="https://links-1.govdelivery.com/CL0/https:%2F%2Fassignmentcenter.uspto.gov%2F%3Futm_campaign=subscriptioncenter%26utm_content=%26utm_medium=email%26utm_name=%26utm_source=govdelivery%26utm_term=/1/01000198ecd61ac8-0edaff98-b019-4408-a805-cafcfccf4819-000000/z8W_EfvTSARxBIa4gtdydrk3xJ0EWQqVbmClCXc_vhY=420"
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data-contrast="none"> on September 27, 2025.</span><span
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