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<p>I don't know which email client you use ... but many email
clients can be set up with "filters". A filter might be used to
look for such postings to put them into a particular folder. One
could search for "[Patentpractice]" in the subject line or could
search for a sender of "oppedahl-lists.com".</p>
<p>It looks like you receive your inbound email from a service
provider "arsmtp.com". You might want to find out from them how
to "whitelist" the emails from "oppedahl-lists.com".</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/6/2025 6:56 AM, Randall Svihla
wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Hi, Carl</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Yes, I am subscribed to Patent
Center, but it seems that all of the emails about this topic
went to my Junk Email folder.<span>
</span>I have 67 messages from the listserv in my Junk Email
folder since 08/20/2025.<span>
</span>No other email went there. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>I saw it was posted on 09/02 and I
was surprised that no one had mentioned it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Randall S. Svihla </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>From:</span></b><span> Carl
Oppedahl <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:carl@oppedahl.com"><carl@oppedahl.com></a>
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<b><span>Sent:</span></b> Saturday, September 6, 2025
4:17 AM<br>
<b><span>To:</span></b> For patent practitioners. This
is not for laypersons to seek legal advice.
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com"><patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com></a><br>
<b><span>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Patentpractice] Guest
and unregistered users will no longer be able to access
Patent Center effective 09/11/2025</span></p>
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<p><span>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. </span></p>
<p><span>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". </span></p>
<p><span>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". </span></p>
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<span>You might see "PATENT CENTER PROOFED" in all uppercase
letters in a blue box. Or you might not. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">
<span>You might see "IDME VERIFIED" in all uppercase letters
in a green box. Or you might not. </span></li>
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<p><span>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.</span></p>
<p><span>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.</span></p>
<p><span>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.</span></p>
<p><span>Do you have the blue box? Do you have the green box?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>On 9/5/2025 9:30 PM, Randall Svihla
via Patentpractice wrote:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Has anyone seen this notice on
the USPTO's website?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><a
href="https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/news-updates/uspto-implementing-additional-security-measures-patent-center-0"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/news-updates/uspto-implementing-additional-security-measures-patent-center-0</a> </span></p>
<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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