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<p>Hello Randall. Are you not subscribed to the Patent Center
listserv? This has been discussed in detail there. More than 36
postings in the past week. So much has been said that I cannot
readily summarize the dozens of postings in a single email here. </p>
<p>Read the notice again and again and you will realize it is so
vaguely worded that maybe the affected population includes "both
current and future users" and not merely "guest and unregistered
users". </p>
<p>The notice of course utterly fails to explain how any particular
customer of Patent Center might be able to work out whether his or
her access will get cut off in five days. So for example, once
you are logged in, you can click on your name in the upper right
corner and then click on "account". </p>
<ul>
<li>You might see "PATENT CENTER PROOFED" in all uppercase letters
in a blue box. Or you might not. </li>
<li>You might see "IDME VERIFIED" in all uppercase letters in a
green box. Or you might not. </li>
</ul>
<p>No communication from the Patent Center developers has said a
word about whether the presence of the blue box means you can
relax and your life will not be turned upside-down in five days.</p>
<p>No communication from the Patent Center developers has said a
word about whether the presence of the green box means you can
relax and your life will not be turned upside-down in five days.</p>
<p>For me personally, I have the blue box but not the green box. At
least one member of the Patent Center listserv has both boxes.</p>
<p></p>
<p>Do you have the blue box? Do you have the green box?</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/5/2025 9:30 PM, Randall Svihla via
Patentpractice wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Has anyone seen this notice on the
USPTO's website?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Guest and unregistered users will no
longer be able to access Patent Center effective 09/11/2025.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>I wonder if they will break anything
when they implement this on 09/11/2025. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Best regards,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Randall S. Svihla</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>NSIP Law</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Washington, D.C.</span></p>
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