[Patentcenter] More Patent Center unannounced degradation

[Richard Schafer]

Coincidentally, I received a notice from Claimmaster Software today warning me, “Unfortunately, a fairly recent update of Patent Center appears to have been intentionally designed to prevent automated web scraping.”  Once Private PAIR shuts down they will be unable to fully automate downloading of bibliographic data and IFW documents as they could from Private PAIR and until recently, from Patent Center. The best they can do is teach me a semi-manual import tool to obtain the data for creating Office Action response shells and filling out PTO forms.

That’s yet another last-minute degradation of Patent Center. There’s no mention of this change on the Patent Center information page. Nor can I find any rule or even guidance against web scraping.

Best regards,
Richard A. Schafer | Schafer IP Law
P.O. Box 230081 | Houston, TX 77223
M: 832.283.6564 | richard at schafer-ip.com<mailto:richard at schafer-ip.com>
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