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<p>Nope, it turns out to be impossible to save the submission
package part way through. See
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/29/2024 4:15 PM, Carl Oppedahl via
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<p>Yes, it looks like that.</p>
<p>It looks like <i><b>if the exact same person</b></i> wants to
save progress and come back, they maybe can do that. There is
one extremely blurry slide toward the beginning of the slide
deck that gives the impression that you can do that. But it
looks like it is impossible to pass a partially completed filing
project over to a colleague for a "second pair of eyes". Or to
pass it to a colleague for e-signature.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/29/2024 4:05 PM, James Katz via
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<p class="MsoNormal">It also seems that they removed any
ability to “save progress” or otherwise save a submission
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<p class="MsoNormal">So there goes our workflow where our
assistants upload an assignment and save it before
submission, then forward the EPAS link to the attorney for
review before the assistant then submits.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Subject: </b>[Patentpractice] some initial
reactions to the USPTO's training slides for
son-of-EPAS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><i>Cumbersome login now required. </i></b>It used
to be that anybody could submit an assignment for
recordation. Now you have to do a cumbersome login with
two-factor authentication. I suspect this means the
person doing the recordation session will have
previously been forced to do a Real ID or other invasive
prove-who-you-are procedure.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><i>Stupid terminology.</i></b> The designer of
son-of-EPAS calls the recordation session "filing an
application". This is nuts. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><i>No functional enhancements for the paying
customer.</i></b> After all this big talk about how
wonderful this son-of-EPAS system is going to be, I
clicked around a bit to try to see what functional
enhancements it is going to provide. For example I
figured the least they would do is make it so that you
can check the status of a recordation submission.
Nope. No enhancements of any kind so far as I can see.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><i>Blocks you from including an application number
that they can't find in their system. </i></b>It
looks like if your patent application is not in
Patentcenter, you will be blocked from including it in
your recordation submission. I suspect this means it
will be impossible to record against a PCT application
filed in an Office that is not the RO/US.<o:p></o:p></p>
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