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<p>Apparently nobody's boss at the USPTO ever says this to a
developer of any USPTO software system.</p>
<p>As a general rule, you can pick any user input field (to be
populated by some item of information) of any first present-day
USPTO software system, and you can find some second present-day
USPTO system that displays that item of information in a format
that will make the first system puke on it.</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/27/2025 6:27 AM, Orvis via
Patentpractice wrote:<br>
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<div> <span dir="ltr">I really hope you are wrong. Imagine your
boss asking you "does the search really not work if the user
inputs the exact number and format we use in our
communications with the user?"</span> <br>
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<p>Sep 27, 2025 8:04:55 AM David Boundy via Patentpractice
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<div> And the new system will have crazy and idisyncratic
rules for entering seial numbers. Maybe you'll be requred
to substite "/" characters with "#", or PCT seial numbers
will have commas between every two digits. What
assignment Center will NOT do is accept every fornat that
PTO systems output, so we can reliably copy-and-paste. </div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"> On Sat, Sep 27, 2025,
4:50 AM Carl Oppedahl via Patentpractice <<a
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<p>Well, the USPTO seems to have blinked. The upheaval
scheduled for September 27 has apparently been
postponed until October 20. See <a
href="https://blog.oppedahl.com/uspto-blinks-on-shutdown-of-familiar-assignment-searches/"
target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
moz-do-not-send="true">blog article</a>.</p>
<div> On 8/27/2025 3:13 PM, Carl Oppedahl via
Patentpractice wrote: <br>
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<p>I think there is a typo in the headline and opening
sentences. What they meant to write is:</p>
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<p><b>Things will be miserable on September 27</b></p>
<p>All of the existing ways of searching for
assignments will get shut down on September 27. A
successor system that has never been beta-tested
will be turn on on September 27. It won't work
right. </p>
<p>The new system will be harder to use and will
require that you log in and use two-factor
authentication, even when searching for
information that is a matter of public record.</p>
<p>For a user who is trying to look up assignment
information for a PCT application, it will fail.</p>
<p>For a user who is trying to look up assignment
information for a Hague application, it will fail.</p>
<p>The new system will fail to correctly match up a
recordation against a PCT number with the
corresponding US national-phase application
number.</p>
<p>The new system will fail to correctly match up a
recordation against a US national-phase
application number with the corresponding PCT
number.</p>
<p>The new system will fail to correctly match up a
recordation against a Hague number with the
corresponding US designation (35-series)
application number.</p>
<p>The new system will fail to correctly match up a
recordation against a US designation (35-series)
application number with the corresponding Hague
number.</p>
<p>For a user who is trying to look up assignment
information for an application that has not been
published it will fail.</p>
<p>Within a week or two, it will be discovered that
the new system has bugs that reveal applicant
information that is not supposed to be revealed,
and parts of the new system will have to be shut
down abruptly.</p>
<p>Weeks will pass before most of the bugs and
defects in the successor system are more or less
corrected. Even after half a year some bugs and
defects will not have been corrected.</p>
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<div> On 8/27/2025 12:41 PM, U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office wrote: <br>
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<h2><span
lang="EN-US"><span>USPTO
</span><span>enhances
</span><span>assignment</span>
<span>record</span><span>s</span><span>
search process</span></span></h2>
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<p><span>The
U.S. Patent
and Trademark
Office (USPTO)
is
streamlining
the overall
assignment
search
experience by
replacing two
legacy search
applications\u2014Patent Assignment Search and Assignments on the Web\u2014with
one, more
reliable,
secure, and
easy to use
Assignment
Search
application.</span><span> </span></p>
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<p><span>Starting
on September
27, 2025,
Assignment
Search will be
live, and the
two legacy
systems will
cease to be
available.
This new,
web-based
application
provides
customers
seeking patent
and trademark
assignment
information
with reliable,
detailed
results via a
modernized
interface.
Customers can
perform basic
searches and
refine their
searches using
the filtering
options
available in
the \u201cadvanced
search\u201d field
of the tool.</span><span> </span></p>
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<p><span>To
improve the
customer
experience,
all previous
assignment
services will
be centrally
located in
Assignment
Center. The
new Assignment
Search
application
can be found
in </span><strong><span><span><a
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27, 2025.</span><span> </span></p>
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