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point and indicated that they had received enough calls to send up an escalation ticket. Patent Center didn’t come back to life until about 5:25pm Eastern,
<u>meaning we had a complete outage of Patent Center for 50 minutes</u>. With the only alternative filing methods now being paper, fax, or certified mail, this episode only reinforces our lack of confidence in the single Patent Center system with no electronic
backup (like EFS-Web Contingency). Another sigh….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:#0B7CB5">David M. Longo, Ph.D.</span></b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> David M. Longo <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 3, 2024 5:21 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> patentcenter@oppedahl-lists.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> our Glorious Patent Center is offline<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;layout-grid-mode:line">And has been for awhile this evening (+/-5pm Eastern on Jan. 3). It returns the cleanest blank page you will ever see:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;layout-grid-mode:line">Such a robust system. Sigh.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black">_Dave<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:#0B7CB5">David M. Longo, Ph.D.</span></b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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