<div dir="ltr"><div>That's the plan. Congressional oversight can't act in a short number of weeks, which is why I didn't try before Nov 8 (sorry, I didn't fully spin up on Patent Center until I was done with DOCX and then paying work....) But once Congress gets going, several people at PTO will be very uncomfortable. Darryl Issa (House IP Subcommittee) is especially tenacious vis-a-vis Dems in executive branch. He'll love it.</div><div><br></div><div>We have to balance quality with quantity. Emails with silly unsupported complaints won't help much, no matter how many. One of my extensive detailed exhaustively-supported letters won't help much. We will need 100 or so detailed expositions of one bug each, plus one of my detailed exhaustively-supported letters. Let me catch up with paying work this weekend and I'll plan this a little better. In the mean time, start writing your detailed write up of one bug each. I will find the right email addresses.</div><div><br></div><div>If you're in Issa's district (San Diego), Hank Johnson's district (DeKalb, Newton, Rockland counties Georgia), Massie (northern Kentucky), Delaware (Coons) or North Carolina (Tillis), please contact me -- I need your help. Also if you're in any subcommitee district <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/subcommittees/committee-judiciary/subcommittee-courts-intellectual-property-and-internet">https://judiciary.house.gov/subcommittees/committee-judiciary/subcommittee-courts-intellectual-property-and-internet</a>, or Hawaii (Hirono), or Arkansas (Cotton) or Tennessee (Blackburn). (Welch and Cornyn won't care, and I don't know enough about Osoff and Padilla).<br></div><div><br></div><div>David<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 11:30\u202fAM Ed Welch via Patentcenter <<a href="mailto:patentcenter@oppedahl-lists.com">patentcenter@oppedahl-lists.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-1500936994481999151"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" lang="EN-US"><div class="m_-1500936994481999151WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">No sure that would do any good as both of these individuals have received letter after letter, in person meetings and the like and still have ignored all requests and concerns. Clearly, they have turned a deaf ear to the IP community that relies upon their services. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I suspect the better option would be to start inundating the representatives and senators of the various committees that oversee the USPTO, especially the Judiciary Committees of the House and Senate, with the original letters as well as the new issues. Perhaps that will be an eye opening experience and lead to some action. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div style="border-color:rgb(225,225,225) currentcolor currentcolor;border-style:solid none none;border-width:1pt medium medium;padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Patentcenter <<a href="mailto:patentcenter-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com" target="_blank">patentcenter-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Randall Svihla via Patentcenter<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 16, 2023 5:46 PM<br><b>To:</b> For bug reports, feature requests, and tips and tricks about Patent Center. <<a href="mailto:patentcenter@oppedahl-lists.com" target="_blank">patentcenter@oppedahl-lists.com</a>>; Carl Oppedahl <<a href="mailto:carl@oppedahl.com" target="_blank">carl@oppedahl.com</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> Randall Svihla <<a href="mailto:rsvihla@nsiplaw.com" target="_blank">rsvihla@nsiplaw.com</a>>; Suzannah K. Sundby <<a href="mailto:suzannah@canadylortz.com" target="_blank">suzannah@canadylortz.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Patentcenter] Patent Crap<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Perhaps everyone should copy the Director and the Commissioner on all of the emails to the Patent Center list serve reporting the bugs.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Randall S. 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