[Patentcenter] How many Patent Center bugs and missing features can one encounter in a single e-filing task?

[Jeff Lindsay]

Here’s a minor bug I don’t think has been reported. Suppose one wishes to upload a PDF-based application data sheet. After uploading, you realize it was the wrong ADS and so you upload the correct version and then remove the previously uploaded one. Upon deleting one of two uploaded ADS documents, BOTH are removed and the user is brought back to the application data section. I can understand having an error message if two separate ADS files are being submitted, but during the process of selecting files, removing one file should not automatically delete other files. 

Further, the PDF-based ADS file cannot be previewed. “Preview” is grayed and and the actions icon (three vertical dots) has “download” grayed out as well. It can only be removed. However A workaround is to click on “download all documents”  to download a zip file of all the documents downloaded, which requires extra time and steps. Both preview and download (for the file alone) should be possible for any uploaded PDF. 

EFS allowed the PDF-based ADS to be downloaded directly and never deleted files that the user did not ask to delete. I hope this functionality can be restored. 

Jeff Lindsay
jeff at jefflindsay.com
+1 920-257-7347





> On Nov 16, 2023, at 2:59 PM, Carl Oppedahl via Patentcenter <patentcenter at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:
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> I kept a running total of bugs and missing features during an e-filing task earlier today.  See the final count here: https://blog.oppedahl.com/oppedahl/ .
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