[Patentcenter] Patent Center Issue Fee Payment Bugs

[Patent Lawyer]

And yet another Issue fee bug (this is a general Patent Center bug):

The PTO’s acknowledgement receipts are almost unreadable.  They will definitely not survive the multiple scans of any litigation.  By the second or third document production they will be useless.
The simple fix – for the PTO lurkers here – STOP using different color in the receipts.  Just use BLACK fonts.  The color adds nothing except degradation of the scanned images stored in the image files.

And, YES, I consider this a bug!

This next one is not a bug, just an inconvenience – stop putting the customer number in the PDF bookmarks.  It adds nothing and makes the bookmarks longer and less readable.



Date: Thursday, November 16, 2023 at 11:23 AM


Newly created ticket CP187<https://patentcenter-tickets.oppedahl.com/#CP187>.
On 11/16/2023 8:35 AM, Patent Lawyer via Patentcenter wrote:
I am trying to pay an issue fee and it keep setting the assignee to “organization” (which is not correct).
I cannot figure out how you fixed that.  What’s the solution.  Each time I set it to “Corporation,” and it looks right on the screen, but then when I preview the file it is set to “Organization.”



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Subject: [Patentcenter] Patent Center Issue Fee Payment Bugs


If the system fills in the Assignee from the ADS (which usually doesn't work for me, the Assignee type is indicated as "Organization" with a warning to change to the type. If you do, the system does not save that change.  So when you open the Web-85 form, it'll show "Organization." It will not error as a result though, so you can submit it with the incorrect entity identification. I don't know what happens if you do, because I correct this by going back, deleting the auto-filled entity & re-entering their data.

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