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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/26/2025 9:30 AM, David Boundy via
Patentcenter wrote:<br>
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<div>It's the incompetence of cultivated indifference.</div>
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<div>For example, the PTO has obligations under the Paperwork
Reduction Act that govern most of the issues we've raised.
The PTO doesn't just passively ignore the PRA, the PTO
affirmatively lies in its communications to the Office of
Management and Budget, claiming to have existing clearances
when the PTO never filed the paperwork. If the lawyers will
run interference for the agency to avoid following the law,
why should IT care?</div>
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<div>A couple weeks ago at AIPLA conference, I asked Will Covey
(PTO's chief ethics officer, and Acting Deputy Director),
about the PTO's plans to implement President Trump's Executive
Orders 13891 and 13892, which cover many of our issues. <a
href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/10/15/2019-22623/promoting-the-rule-of-law-through-improved-agency-guidance-documents"
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<a
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He said (not literally, but in effect) that the PTO isn't
doing a damn thing. Apparently if a law has any costs to the
PTO or limits PTO action, the law can go fly a kite, with the
blessing of the PTO's chief ethics officer.<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at
9:15\u202fAM Vivek Ramachandran via Patentcenter <<a
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target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div dir="ltr">More likely it's just incompetence. The current
view is security by locking down access to public data. They
shut down more than the assingments. The entire PEDS system
was turned off.
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<div>They should have separated the two systems from get go.
One stores data that is public and one stores data that is
non-public. Turns out they were using access control from
the same database. To fix this, they would have had to
replicate their expensive system. Instead they chose to
shut it all down. Rate limit patent center to prevent
leaks. It's security by hampering data access. </div>
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<div>Seems to be why we have to put up with a suboptimal
system.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at
7:42\u202fAM Dan Feigelson via Patentcenter <<a
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<div>Suzannah, I buy the "planned obsolescence"
explanation of Microsoft/PC manufacturers doing what
they do. I've said for a long time that Word 2.0
worked just great for what I usually do. As did
Windows XP, which was the first version of Windows
that was almost good as the original Mac OS.</div>
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<div>But PatentCrapper is not a mass-market program,
it's made for exactly one client, the USPTO, made to
specifications set by the USPTO - just like ePCT is
made only for WIPO, to specs set by WIPO. And yet the
folks running and programming ePCT don't seem to be
operating on a planned obsolescence model. </div>
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<div>The fact that patent crapper is so bad, despite
input from those of us who use it, means that (a) the
people in charge of IT at the USPTO are incredibly
stupid (b) the people in charge of IT at the USPTO
don't care, (c) the programmers have a contract that
effectively makes them immune from getting dinged for
bad work. Of course, those three things are not
mutually exclusive. And I think Carl has in the past
explained how (c) is a possibility (viz. federal
government requirements for contractors that insure
that only big, clunky vendors can even bid for USPTO
IT contracts). </div>
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Dan</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 26, 2025
at 3:08\u202fPM Suzannah K. Sundby <<a
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<span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">why do
<span>uspto</span> programmers design
inefficiency into the system?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">To guarantee their
employment\u2026 if a program/system is \u2018perfect\u2019
and can\u2019t be improved upon, they will no
longer be needed.</span></p>
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style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I suspect this is
the same for most all software programmers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In fact, I think
software programmers, computer hardware
<span>mfrs</span>, and hackers are all in
cahoots with each other\u2026 Think about it\u2026
over the last 10 or more years, not much is
different
<span>wrt</span> to, e.g., MS Word and its
functions, except for its
appearance/interface\u2026 but the programmers
keep making new versions claiming its new
and improved.<span>
</span>The newer version, however, often
removes a prior function or two\u2026 yet the
newer version requires more RAM and ROM\u2026
which then requires one to get a new
computer with sufficient RAM and ROM\u2026 which,
\u2018lo and behold, the new computer\u2019s operating
system and/or the newer version of software
has virus/hacker vulnerabilities (shocker),
which requires patches etc. which require
more RAM and ROM\u2026 and btw now the new
computer and newer version of software
doesn\u2019t work seamlessly with some of your
other software programs\u2026 so you have to get
the newer versions of those other software
programs\u2026 and \u2018round n \u2018round\u2026 meanwhile all
the newer versions of software only allow
annual subscription licenses whereby they
can charge you more\u2026 and force you to
upgrade to the next newer version of the
software which subscription costs even more.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Patentcenter <<a
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Dan Feigelson via
Patentcenter<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 26, 2025 6:16
AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Randall Svihla <<a
href="mailto:rsvihla@nsiplaw.com"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">rsvihla@nsiplaw.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Dan Feigelson <<a
href="mailto:djf@iliplaw.com"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">djf@iliplaw.com</a>>;
For patent practitioners. This is not for
laypersons to seek legal advice. <<a
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Patentcenter]
[Patentpractice] why do uspto programmers
design inefficiency into the system?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But I can see
assignment data for unpublished
applications, so they didn't cut ALL
access to assignment data from PC. </p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you're saying they
cut off assignment access for all
publicly visible applications, that's a
possible explanation, but doesn't answer
my question. Except that, if true, it
means they're just lazy and/or
incompetent.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Jun 26, 2025
at 1:04<span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">\u202f</span>PM
Randall Svihla <<a
href="mailto:rsvihla@nsiplaw.com"
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wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">My guess is that
they figured that if they don't
allow any assignment data to be
displayed via Patent Center,
they can't have another data
leak of assignment data for
unpublished applications.</span></p>
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<b><span
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Dan Feigelson <<a
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 26,
2025 6:01 AM<br>
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<b>Cc:</b> For patent
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<b>Subject:</b> Re:
[Patentpractice] why do uspto
programmers design inefficiency
into the system?</p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Sounds like an
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<p
class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Can someone
explain why
the ONLY way
to fix the
issue
behind the
data leak was
to prevent
practitioners
from seeing
assignment
data for their
own published
cases in PC? </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">On Thu, Jun 26,
2025 at 12:55\u202fPM
Randall Svihla
<<a
href="mailto:rsvihla@nsiplaw.com" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Because of the
assignment data leak
last year.</span></p>
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<b><span
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Patentpractice <<a
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Dan
Feigelson via
Patentpractice<br>
<b>Sent:</b>
Thursday, June 26,
2025 5:49 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> For
patent
practitioners. This
is not for
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<b>Subject:</b>
[Patentpractice] why
do uspto programmers
design inefficiency
into the system?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I'm logged into
patentcenter,
looking at one
of my cases, and
I want to see
the assignment
information they
have on record.
When I click on
"assignments", I
get a pop-up
window saying,
"Patent Center
only displays
assignment
information for
non-public
applications to
user authorized
to access the
application.
This application
is open to the
public. Please
use Assignment
Search to
search assignment
information for
applications
open to the
public. <a
href="https://gcfagjf.r.af.d.sendibt2.com/tr/cl/-EmW0t0ZBqiB0ZKGIWv8Yi9y-p-aEjx_tHlbcJ0evDwDqI8Wtq9lbVnIkL-9WdwR-qAhPVZosSXDgEe9oloxMwsKxl9ZH8U5cu-wWvAthLhLM5Nm4qQsDNihUKEXvSvrGW8xisjgjctnwINgj0MglWvwDk9D9f9kXFhKWE72zVN9rjPwoT5uMJoxaCO6u2zZqTA87pIhkiTmBtrTLovCikG0da1C8m9LP5D58OdD5yaNdCN_dgBdOeQ1W_v0rSPZ5FNUm7hCK8Toro6w4tcd0VUmFudjsZsnLkNV1U60cNZb_Px7OzfCGZFP4Z76uVUUYVbNqq-EaADHtaLcNzj0-w"
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https://assignment.uspto.gov/patent/index.html#/patent/search</a>". </span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Inasmuch as from
within
patentcrapper,
I can see the
assignment
info for my
<b>un</b>published
applications,
it's clear
that whoever
wrote the
notice was <i>trying</i> to
say, "The
application
you're looking
at has
published, so
we're not
making
assignment
information available
to you in
Patent
Crapper, go to
Assignment
Center, nyeah
nyeah nyeah."</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Quite a contrast
from what we
saw earlier in
the week with
Mike
Richardson and
WIPO regarding
the applicant
email field in
ePCT...</span></p>
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