<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Interesting! But going back to the 7-day view did not restore the missing information. It\u2019s still not there. Apparently 7 &lt; 6 in USPTO math.&nbsp;<div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 2, 2024, at 11:30 AM, Carl Oppedahl &lt;<a href="mailto:carl@oppedahl.com" class="">carl@oppedahl.com</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">

  
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  <div class=""><p class="">Sometimes when Patent Center behaves weirdly, the explanation
      turns out to be the passive-aggressive way that Patent Center logs
      you out.&nbsp; It counts down the time until it decides you need to be
      logged out.&nbsp; And then it logs you out.&nbsp; But, and this is the
      important thing, it does not tell you that it did so.</p><p class="">Meanwhile the Patent Center screen that you see looks for all the
      world like a screen where you ought to be able to click and do
      things.&nbsp; And instead, when you click to do this or that, Patent
      Center sort of plays dumb and gives nonsense answers.&nbsp; Examples
      are "unknown error" in red text.&nbsp;&nbsp; Or "you have no applications
      matching this search strategy" or "you have no outgoing
      correspondence".&nbsp; In general the answer is either (a) flatly false
      or (b) wildly unhelpful.</p><p class="">I wonder if your "no recent correspondence" was due to one of the
      passive-aggressive logouts?&nbsp; And then somehow eventually you
      clicked something that shamed Patent Center into
      auto-logging-you-back-in.&nbsp; And then you have outgoing
      correspondence listed on the screen.&nbsp; The way you would know, I
      suppose, is by clicking back to the seven-day report (after
      viewing the 30-day report) and see if now there is something
      actually listed.</p><p class="">Oh and I have not put a stopwatch on it, but I think the
      passive-aggressive logouts from Patent Center sometimes happen as
      little as ten minutes after my last user activity.&nbsp; <br class="">
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/2/2024 10:08 AM, Jeff Lindsay
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      When I log into the PatentCenter today, it shows no recent
      correspondence for the past 7 days, but when I view correspondence
      from the past 30 days, there are three items that were mailed on
      Friday, Sept. 27. Today is Wednesday, Oct. 2, so Sept 25. is 6 day
      ago. Does the USPTO use a special definition of \u201c7 days\u201d?&nbsp;
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            <div class="">On Oct 17, 2023, at 8:15 AM, Andrea R.
              Jacobson via Patentcenter &lt;<a href="mailto:patentcenter@oppedahl-lists.com" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">patentcenter@oppedahl-lists.com</a>&gt;
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                <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I would say it\u2019s entirely different. While
                  the default view of imaged in the \u201clast 3 days\u201d view
                  is a frustration, prior to today every time I would
                  change the view to be e-Notifications &gt; Today, it
                  would \u2013 as expected - mirror the emails that I had
                  received.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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                <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">It\u2019s concerning that an item in the email
                  notification is not included in the e-Notification
                  view and that I had to actually change to the imaging
                  view to see it.&nbsp; I cannot get any adjustment to
                  e-Notification view to show it (even explaining to the
                  last 30 days).<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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                    <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span class="">From:</span></b><span class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Carl
                        Oppedahl &lt;<a href="mailto:carl@oppedahl.com" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">carl@oppedahl.com</a>&gt;<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><br class="">
                        <b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Tuesday,
                        October 17, 2023 8:28 AM<br class="">
                        <b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>users of
                        Patentcenter &lt;<a href="mailto:patentcenter@oppedahl-lists.com" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">patentcenter@oppedahl-lists.com</a>&gt;<br class="">
                        <b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Re:
                        [Patentcenter] Outgoing correspondence oddity<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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                <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class="">&nbsp;</o:p></div><p class="">I wonder if this is at least partially
                  addressed in<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://patentcenter-tickets.oppedahl.com/#CP31" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">https://patentcenter-tickets.oppedahl.com/#CP31</a>and<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://blog.oppedahl.com/?p=6139" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">https://blog.oppedahl.com/?p=6139</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>.<span class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="">There is also the lack of truthfulness on
                  the part of the USPTO about "mailing dates" these
                  days.<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
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                  <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">On 10/17/2023 5:57 AM, Andrea R. Jacobson
                    via Patentcenter wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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                  <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">So here\u2019s a new one \u2026. One of our customer
                    number indicated in the correspondence notification
                    email (image 1) that it had received a NOA, 892, and
                    1449. BUT, when I go in to Patent Center and view
                    the outgoing correspondence e-Notification for
                    today, the 1449 does not appear in the listing
                    (image 2) &nbsp;I changed the e-Notification date to the
                    last 3 days and still no luck. &nbsp;&nbsp;When I changed it
                    to All Correspondence &gt; Image Date &gt; Last 7
                    days it finally appeared (image 3) and indicates the
                    mailing date is<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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