[Patentcenter] More Patent Center unannounced degradation

[Carl Oppedahl]

Richard, you must be mistaken.  Patent Center has 100% of the 
functionality of PAIR.

On 11/7/2023 4:11 PM, Richard Schafer via Patentcenter wrote:
>
> 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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