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<p>No need to apologize.</p>
<p>One reason why there's no need to apologize is that the designers
of Ass. Center have probably gone out of their way to avoid openly
revealing when they do code changes. I have not been able to
find any version number displayed anywhere in Ass. Center. So
they might change code here or there without telling the users.
This would then mean that the system would behave differently on a
Tuesday from its behavior the previous Monday, and we the users
would not know whether it means we did something wrong or some
other explanation for it.</p>
<p>And bug tracking for Ass. Center will be at least as much of a
miserable experience for us, the users, as is bug tracking for
Patent Center.</p>
<p>Similarly, risk tracking for DOCX is a miserable experience for
us, the users, because the USPTO designers of the DOCX black-box
engine go out of their way to avoid revealing any version number
changes or code changes.<br>
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<p>So no need to apologize.</p>
<p>And yes, the term "new normal" as you use it will surely end up
being a moving target from day to day.</p>
<p>Oh by the way. If some listserv member has extra time on their
hands, I suppose it would make sense to snoop around inside the
PDF and DOCX files that are inside the IFW of an application that
was filed using DOCX, to see whether the developers may have
slipped up and revealed the version number of the DOCX black-box
rendering engine somewhere in the metadata of the PDF or DOCX
files.</p>
<p>I wonder if maybe the thing to do is a FOIA request asking for
the version history for the DOCX black-box rendering engine. Just
the dates and version numbers, nothing more, so they can't jerk us
around on their unwillingness to reveal the source code.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/26/2024 3:49 PM, Katherine Koenig
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<p class="MsoNormal">I apologize if this has already been
discussed, but I filed a provisional application 4 days ago
and still can’t record an Assignment for that application
because Ass Center says “No Properties available.” Is this
the new normal or is there an issue with the application that
I’ll need to look into? I see the application in Patent
Center, but do see the status is “undergoing preexam
processing.” Didn’t we used to be able to record an
assignment immediately after filing an application?
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