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<p>By the way this posting which is about Ass. Center does not
belong in the Patent Center listserv. The Patent Center listserv
is only for defects in Patent Center. This posting belongs in the
Patent Practice listserv.<br>
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<p>The only ones that might successfully get through Ass. Center are
the ones where US national phase has already been entered and, I'd
guess, the official Filing Receipt already mailed out, showing the
continuity data back to the PCT.</p>
<p>This is a known defect, see <a
href="https://blog.oppedahl.com/some-of-the-defects-in-the-new-assignment-center/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://blog.oppedahl.com/some-of-the-defects-in-the-new-assignment-center/</a>
.</p>
<p>I predicted this defect back on January 29. See <a
href="https://blog.oppedahl.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/20240129-prediction.pdf"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://blog.oppedahl.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/20240129-prediction.pdf</a>
.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/22/2024 10:23 AM, Catherine Van
Houten via Patentcenter wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I just got off the phone with the
assignment branch. I am trying to record an assignment against
a PCT filed in RO/CN and Assignment Center will not accept the
application number. The PCT is published and is readily
available in Patentscope.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The person on the phone instructed me to
email a screen shot showing the PCT number and the error
message so they could determine why the system will not accept
it. I asked her why the PTO needs the application number and
error message if Assignment Center will not accept PCTs that
are filed in other than RO/US. She said the system does accept
SOME PCTs from outside the US and that is why they need to
investigate the specific numbers that their system does not
accept.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I asked her what I can do to record an
assignment against my CN PCT while they investigate the issue
in the Assignment Center. She said there’s nothing I can do. I
asked if I can fax the assignment in to be recorded and she
that won’t work because she said that when an assignment is
faxed into the office, they manually put it through the SAME
Assignment Center system that we use on-line. She said there
is no other way for the PTO to record an assignment.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is it true that the new system is rejecting
only SOME of the PCTs filed outside RO/US? Have any of you
successfully used Assignment Center to record an assignment
against a PCT filed in a receiving office other than the US?
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<p class="MsoNormal">For the record, the assignment system
returned this message:
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