<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">It is almost tempting to ask if the stakeholders include any hostile foreign powers that would like to see our IP software systems be buggy and act as a tax on or barrier to innovation? <div><br></div><div>Has there been any disclosure about the stakeholders involved or about the connections and background of the lucky winner of a lucrative and apparently no-bid contract for all this top-notch software? It just makes no sense that this massive failure with all the bad behavior associated with it is just the result of ordinary incompetence. Too much money and too much strange behavior is involved to make that a reasonable answer. <div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Feb 6, 2024, at 9:05 AM, Jeffrey Semprebon via Patentpractice <patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">"
come up with an assignment system that works!" - Of course, they already HAD a system that works. All they need to do is get EPAS back online until they've worked out the bugs of the new system. But, apparently their mystery "stakeholders" (who clearly don't include those actually recording assignments) are OK with a system that doesn't work.<div><br></div><div>-Jeff <br>Jeffrey E. Semprebon<br>Semprebon Patent Services<br><a href="http://www.semprebonps.com">www.semprebonps.com</a><br>72 Myrtle Street<br>Claremont, New Hampshire 03743</div></div></div>
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