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<p>Mr. Polutta is the same person who said on February 7 that I
would hear back in response to my letter about the "DOCX
safeguard". See <a
href="https://blog.oppedahl.com/maybe-uspto-will-clarify-the-docx-safeguard/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://blog.oppedahl.com/maybe-uspto-will-clarify-the-docx-safeguard/</a>
. As of today, more than two months have passed and no answer
from him on the "DOCX safeguard".<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/29/2024 4:04 PM, Carl Oppedahl via
Patentpractice wrote:<br>
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<p>The notice identifies Mr. Polutta and Mr. Stclair as the people
who will answer questions about this data leak. So I realized I
need to ask them about it. Here is the email that I sent to
them today.</p>
<p>Who would like to make book on how promptly they will get back
to me on this?<br>
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Hello Mr. Polutta and Mr. Stclair. Your Notice dated April 27
raises many questions.<br>
<br>
How did you pick the list of recipients for your Notice?<br>
<br>
I imagine that the way you picked this list was by identifying
all of the patent applications for which a document got recorded
in Assignment Center between February 5, 2024 and March 29,
2024. Is that how you picked this list? And then you sent the
Notice to the point of contact for each of those patent
applications? Can you confirm this?<br>
<br>
When you were getting ready to send the Notice to the
points-of-contact identified above, did you cross-check to see
if the person who did the Assignment Center recordation was the
same person who filed the patent application in the first
place? My best guess is that you did not carry out such a
cross-check. Can you confirm this?<br>
<br>
What about the cases where somebody was using Assignment Center
between February 5, 2024 and March 29, 2024, and typed in a
particular application number, and saw the invention title, and
then did not click "submit"? Did you send the Notice to the
point of contact for those application numbers? My best guess
is that the USPTO never logged such instances, meaning that no
Notice got sent to points of contact for such application
numbers. I hope to get a clear yes-or-no answer from you on
this.<br>
<br>
As you may imagine, patent practitioners need to know the
answers to these questions so that we may communicate
appropriately with all affected clients, not merely the clients
for which you sent out this Notice. I hope I may hear back from
you very promptly.<br>
<br>
Carl Oppedahl<br>
<br>
Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC<br>
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