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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/16/2023 11:50 AM, Alan Taboada
via Patentcenter wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Which brings me to another annoyance of
PC and a feature request (being nice to not call it a bug).
In EFS-Web, one could right click an efiling acknowledgement
link and select "save link as" to choose a location and
filename for the receipt. Or one could right click on a link
to open it in a new tab.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">However, now, in PC right-clicking on
many items of interest that you might want to save or open in
a new tab merely brings up a useless contextual menu that does
not include the option to save the file as something or to
open the link in a new tab.</p>
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<p>One way to model this is as a RESTfulness fail. <br>
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<p>See discussion at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://blog.oppedahl.com/oppedahl/">https://blog.oppedahl.com/oppedahl/</a> where I
write<br>
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the very first apha-tester meeting with the USPTO developers in
2018, the USPTO developers promised that Patent Center would be
RESTful (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REST"
style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration: none; box-shadow: rgb(15, 15, 15) 0px -1px 0px inset; transition: color 80ms ease-in 0s, box-shadow 130ms ease-in-out 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 130ms ease-in-out 0s;">Wikipedia
article</a>). RESTfulness is the result of following best
practices in web interface design. Among other things, if the
designer follows best practices, the user can right-click on any
link and can open it in a new window. But guess what, and I
know this will astonish you, it turns out that the USPTO
developers have spent the past five years failing to follow best
practices for web interface design. See \u201crestfulness\u201d bugs<span> </span><a
href="https://patentcenter-tickets.oppedahl.com/#CP74"
style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration: none; box-shadow: rgb(15, 15, 15) 0px -1px 0px inset; transition: color 80ms ease-in 0s, box-shadow 130ms ease-in-out 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 130ms ease-in-out 0s;">CP74</a>,<span> </span><a
href="https://patentcenter-tickets.oppedahl.com/#CP105"
style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration: none; box-shadow: rgb(15, 15, 15) 0px -1px 0px inset; transition: color 80ms ease-in 0s, box-shadow 130ms ease-in-out 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 130ms ease-in-out 0s;">CP105</a>,
and<span> </span><a
href="https://patentcenter-tickets.oppedahl.com/#CP121"
style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration: none; box-shadow: rgb(15, 15, 15) 0px -1px 0px inset; transition: color 80ms ease-in 0s, box-shadow 130ms ease-in-out 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 130ms ease-in-out 0s;">CP121</a>.
(I\u2019ll count this as one bug, so now we are up to \u201c4\u201d.)</p>
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