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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Carl Oppedahl <carl@oppedahl.com>
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<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 10 February 2024 23:36<br>
<b>To:</b> For patent practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek legal advice. <patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Patentpractice] Assignment Center -- stored contacts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>Sure you can do the recordation by usps postal mail at the USPTO.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>This requires paying a fee.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 2/10/2024 4:00 PM, Allen Richter (allenr--- via Patentpractice wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#002060;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Because of the bug I cannot record within the “three months window” an assignment for a PCT that was filed with an Non-US Receiving-Office.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Are there alternatives available for recording the Assignments with the USPTO other than using the defunct improved system?</span><o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Patentpractice
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Michael Dryja via Patentpractice<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 10 February 2024 22:51<br>
<b>To:</b> For patent practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek legal advice.
<a href="mailto:patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com"><patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com></a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Michael Dryja <a href="mailto:mike@dryjapat.com"><mike@dryjapat.com></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Patentpractice] Assignment Center -- stored contacts</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sigh. Hopefully they will fix this at some point. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Feb 10, 2024, at 1:13 PM, Scott Nielson <<a href="mailto:scnielson@outlook.com">scnielson@outlook.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos Serif",serif">When I first tried Assignment Center, I noticed the "Stored contact information" field and wondered where this contact information is stored. After some poking around, I found an address book
on the MyUSPTO account page. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos Serif",serif;color:black;background:white">I entered my address and a few client addresses. I then went back to Assignment Center to see if they would show up. Surprisingly, my contact information showed
up as an option in the drop down list on the correspondence information page. When I selected it, my contact information was auto-populated as the correspondence information.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos Serif",serif;color:black;background:white">I then proceeded to the conveying party page and my contact information also appeared in the drop down list but none of the client contact information appeared.
The same thing happened on the receiving party page. It would auto-fill my information but the client information in my address book was nowhere to be found.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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my address book, but nothing shows up in the drop down list for stored contact information.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Patentpractice <<a href="mailto:patentpractice-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com">patentpractice-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com</a>> on behalf of Michael Dryja via Patentpractice <<a href="mailto:patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com">patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Saturday, February 10, 2024 10:52 AM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>For patent practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek legal advice. <<a href="mailto:patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com">patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Michael Dryja <<a href="mailto:mike@dryjapat.com">mike@dryjapat.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>[Patentpractice] Assignment Center -- stored contacts<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">I filed my first assignments using Assignment Center. As Carl’s blog has noted, it’s impossible to create “stored contacts” that you can subsequently select when filing
a new assignment.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Has anyone heard when the USPTO is planning on rolling out this functionality? That would go a long way in my mind to making AC more usable. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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