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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Patentpractice <patentpractice-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com> on behalf of Richard Schafer via Patentpractice <patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 6, 2024 9:39:51 PM<br>
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<b>Cc:</b> Richard Schafer <richard@schafer-ip.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Patentpractice] New Patent Assignment Center Inoperable</font>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Goudy Old Style",serif; color:#1F497D">You mean like the address book ePCT provides? That’s not possible, since that’s a not-invented-here feature.</span></p>
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<b>Cc:</b> Michael Dryja <mike@dryjapat.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Patentpractice] New Patent Assignment Center Inoperable</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I cannot believe they didn't fix that idiocy with the "/" in the application number. And if you try the number with a "/" in it, does the error message say, "Oh, hey, you're not allowed to have a '/' in there"? No. It says it cannot find
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<p class="MsoNormal">Their own electronic acknowledgment receipts include the slash, but apparently it's too much for the USPTO to allow a copy-paste of the number from the EAR to the assignment system. Why help customers avoid errors? What kind of patent office
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<p class="MsoNormal">This times a million. It would be trivial to process input to remove slashes and commas, or add slashes and commas as necessary. For an application, there are really only three general formats: XX/YYY,ZZZ; XX/YYYZZZ; XXYYYZZZ.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have yet to file an assignment with the new system. My initial hope was that they were going to expand the “templates” to a full-blown address book, so you can save information for parties for later selection as either an assignee or
an assignor in a given assignment. I can’t believe I was so silly in thinking that.</p>
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