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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Patentcenter <patentcenter-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Suzannah K. Sundby via Patentcenter<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 4, 2024 5:04 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> For bug reports, feature requests, and tips and tricks about Patent Center. <patentcenter@oppedahl-lists.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Suzannah K. Sundby <suzannah@canadylortz.com>; David M. Longo <DLongo@oblon.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Patentcenter] our Glorious Patent Center is offline<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Well, to be fair… since EFS-Web is now defunct/offline, yes, PatentCrapper does have all the functionality of EFS-Web.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/ssundby/"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">Suzannah K. Sundby</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Patentcenter <<a href="mailto:patentcenter-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com">patentcenter-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Daniel Feigelson via Patentcenter<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 3, 2024 6:44 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> For bug reports, feature requests, and tips and tricks about Patent Center. <<a href="mailto:patentcenter@oppedahl-lists.com">patentcenter@oppedahl-lists.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Daniel Feigelson <<a href="mailto:djf@4d-ip.com">djf@4d-ip.com</a>>; David M. Longo <<a href="mailto:DLongo@oblon.com">DLongo@oblon.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Patentcenter] our Glorious Patent Center is offline<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Must be something with each of these individual's computers. Patentcenter has all the functionality of EFS-Web. Kathi Vidal told us so!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 12:47 AM David M. Longo via Patentcenter <<a href="mailto:patentcenter@oppedahl-lists.com">patentcenter@oppedahl-lists.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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been offline for 20 minutes at that 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….</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black">Best regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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