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<span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">That sounds like a feature, not a bug.</span>
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<p>Nov 21, 2023 5:59:03 PM Richard Schafer via Patentcenter <patentcenter@oppedahl-lists.com>:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif"><span style="color:#1F497D;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Goudy Old Style",serif">This is just a guess since no one outside of the PTO and its contractors knows how Patent Center works.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif"><span style="color:#1F497D;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Goudy Old Style",serif">EFS may have sequentially processed each document, leading to them showing in the IFW in their uploaded order. Occasionally, some documents may have required special handling, which required pulling them out of order.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif"><span style="color:#1F497D;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Goudy Old Style",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif"><span style="color:#1F497D;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Goudy Old Style",serif">Asynchronous processing of each document makes sense from a developer\u2019s perspective because it may use computational resources more efficiently. But from the applicant\u2019s perspective, the result is a mess for anyone trying to compare what is in the IFW with what was uploaded.</span></p>
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M: 832.283.6564 | </span><span style="color:#1F497D;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Goudy Old Style",serif"><a href="mailto:richard@schafer-ip.com">richard@schafer-ip.com</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif"><b>From:</b> Patentcenter <patentcenter-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Randall Svihla via Patentcenter<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 21, 2023 4:25 PM<br><b>To:</b> users of Patentcenter <patentcenter@oppedahl-lists.com><br><b>Cc:</b> Randall Svihla <rsvihla@nsiplaw.com><br><b>Subject:</b> [Patentcenter] Patent Center does not show documents in the order they were uploaded</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hi, fellow Patent Center victims</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">When we file a new application, we upload documents in a standard order. For example, we uploaded the following documents in the following order for a new application we filed today:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Utility Transmittal</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Application (single PDF document including specification, claims, abstract)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">IDS Statement</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Foreign Ref 1</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">When we filed new applications in the sainted EFS-Web of blessed memory, they would generally appear in the image file wrapper in the same order we upload them, although occasionally the POA and IDS Statement would be out of order. This made it easy to do a quick visual check that all of the documents were in the image file wrapper.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">However, for the new application we just filed in the hated p.o.s. Patent Center, the documents appear in the following random order in the image file wrapper:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Foreign Reference 1</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">WHY????????????????????</span></p>
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