<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Raising the question of whether the USPTO's response has been compliant with any relevant federal or state laws regarding requirements to report data breaches to those potentially affected.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.1px">-Jeff </span><div><br style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.1px"><span style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.1px">Jeffrey E. Semprebon</span><br style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.1px"><span style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.1px">Semprebon Patent Services</span><br style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.1px"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.semprebonps.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.1px" target="_blank">www.semprebonps.com</a><br style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.1px"><span style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.1px">72 Myrtle Street</span><br style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.1px"><span style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.1px">Claremont, New Hampshire 03743</span><br></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 6:45\u202fAM Carl Oppedahl via Patentpractice <<a href="mailto:patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com">patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<p>I consider it vanishingly unlikely that the CIO successfully
communicated this <i>mea culpa</i> Notice to all or even most of
the US patent applicants whose invention titles got revealed to
third parties.</p>
<p>...</p></div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><p>The vast majority of US patent applicants who <i><b>did</b></i>
have their invention titles revealed to a third party probably did
not receive the CIO's <i>mea culpa</i> Notice, because I am sure
the developers of Ass. Center failed to log the mistyped
application numbers. If an applicant whose invention title got
revealed in this way to a third party did receive the CIO's <i>mea
culpa</i> Notice, it would only be due to a coincidence that the
applicant had by chance itself made use of Ass. Center during the
time of the data breach.<br></p></div><br>
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