<img width="1" height="1" src='https://gcfagjf.r.bh.d.sendibt3.com/tr/op/PqGF62qdFqUB_uLGQsMSJeagVwf7hUKfHRep7Ua8euCBfnEMPUsBuy_OIOQMZlT1pszDKcOzxQu4TvwLuv7y7N9c-rZ-QRNb5hFj4T5uEa9ePt9ZHnG1YhOFWHN-J9GSs7fvsrvx5Q_vkicb5a4CriU0UlsPySF6g6eoAnQozaTdwJgiHbDF5kdDg6ZmLN44NdlY-7URGkQsov__hQ8gqqbBPrY4r3t70op_' /><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>They have had this in Israel for almost a year now. You go to enter national phase, you enter the PCT application number, and the system it populates the screen with all the info it pulls from WIPO. And it's immediately apparent if you've got the right case or not. If not, go back and correct the number. And you're given the option of using the documents as on file at WIPO, or filing your own version (e.g. if you want to make claim amendments upon national phase entry).</div><div><br></div><div>I guess with that huge two billion dollar budget to upgrade the USPTO's IT, they couldn't figure this one out.</div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 7:10\u202fPM 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>Inspired by the listserv member (thank you Orvis PC) I have added
<a href="https://gcfagjf.r.bh.d.sendibt3.com/tr/cl/W35Z6BPoHezj3oceY6AG14_61cEd7gu8z6RB9sH0bXrtjycgvj1gIb1HMh_d1HMRhTAJ7uw05pL59a07jSgskbl54NeDDritZqwACrAbO_ztKb7HNtkOaD7lup7bjq8frenO8BoybaPeiHt5Od5nksoUOdxHahO7udj-O4LK4nvVwGWTlYbkqWVcEanK-OL_B59Ldl4otGkuDYsmBrYJjwTHJrYpXl9TVccG5ldH2y_2MLZFyBRzemOEuVAP6FP-_q2JkvbBSn2SE1Y66fCTN4eGBX-EJ4adR2uAy_l0SXCLK5p3SerlRtBzti1nWPg0xbTNDAg85bqa4fh4rIgAxwCst_cTlQ50LZcC4A" target="_blank">Feature
Request FR55</a>. <br>
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<p>I note that of the 54 Patent Center feature requests that have
been outstanding now for over a year, precisely <i><b>zero of
them</b></i> have been implemented thus far.<br>
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<div>On 8/1/2024 9:59 AM, Carl Oppedahl via
Patentpractice wrote:<br>
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<p>The listserv member is, I think, making a sly reference to
ePCT. When you enter, say, a priority application number into
ePCT, it automatically runs off to DAS and cross-checks the
digits that you entered against the (hopefully) identical digits
that are already in the DAS system. If they match, you get a
smiley face from ePCT. If they fail to match, you get a frowny
face from ePCT. The alert filer who gets a frowny face from
ePCT can then look to see whether (for example) a couple of
digits got transposed. The validation goes so far as to
cross-check the application number and the (purported) filing
date and the two-letter code for the office where the filer says
the priority application was filed.</p>
<p>Used to be that the public face of PCT at the USPTO was Mike
Neas. Later he got promoted to some other part of the USPTO and
now he does not do PCT any more. But shortly before his
promotion, he said that he had been urging the IT people to add
a feature to EFS-Web so that when the filer enters the PCT
number into the first screen of EFS-Web, it would ... wait for
it .... automatically run off to Patentscope and cross-check the
digits that you entered against the (hopefully) identical digits
that are already in Patentscope. If they match, you get a
smiley face from EFS-Web. If they fail to match, you get a
frowny face from EFS-Web. Not only that, what he was asking the
IT people included ... wait for it ... would they please display
the invention title and applicant name and first inventor name.
So the filer could get tipped off if the filer had entered an
incorrect PCT number. <br>
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<div>On 8/1/2024 9:47 AM, Orvis wrote:<br>
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<div style="font-family:sans-serif"> <span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">If only there was a
way for software filing systems to do error checking when
application numbers and other data are entered online. </span>
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<p>Aug 1, 2024 11:16:24 AM Carl Oppedahl via Patentpractice
<a href="mailto:patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com" target="_blank"><patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com></a>:</p>
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