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<p class="MsoNormal">We are having issues with our docketing software as well related to their docketing and download capabilities and verifying of data. They had sent an email on Monday that there was going to be update to the console so it would use Patent
Center and not Private PAIR, but when I went to do so yesterday it was not available. Turns out they had to pull the update because of recent changes to Patent Center.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Patentcenter <patentcenter-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Carl Oppedahl via Patentcenter<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 7, 2023 6:26 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> patentcenter@oppedahl-lists.com<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Carl Oppedahl <carl@oppedahl.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Patentcenter] More Patent Center unannounced degradation<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Richard, you must be mistaken. Patent Center has 100% of the functionality of PAIR.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 11/7/2023 4:11 PM, Richard Schafer via Patentcenter wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Goudy Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D">Coincidentally, I received a notice from Claimmaster Software today warning me, \u201cUnfortunately, a fairly recent update of Patent Center appears to have been
intentionally designed to prevent automated web scraping.\u201d 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
<b><i>until recently</i></b>, 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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Goudy Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D">That\u2019s yet another last-minute degradation of Patent Center. There\u2019s no mention of this change on the Patent Center information page. Nor can I find any rule
or even guidance against web scraping.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Goudy Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Best regards,<br>
<b>Richard A. Schafer | Schafer IP Law</b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Goudy Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">P.O. Box 230081 | Houston, TX 77223<br>
M: 832.283.6564 | </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Goudy Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:richard@schafer-ip.com"><span style="color:#0563C1">richard@schafer-ip.com</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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