<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>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 the property. </div><div><br></div><div>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 does that?!</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div> - Mike.</div><div><div><br></div><div>--- </div><div>Law Offices of Michael Dryja</div><div>24 Roy St #447</div><div>Seattle, WA 98109</div><div>voice 206.453.1121</div><div>fax 206.774.2781</div><div>mike@dryjapat.com </div><div><a href="http://www.dryjapat.com">www.dryjapat.com</a></div></div><div><br></div></body></html>