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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 moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://blog.oppedahl.com/uspto-blinks-on-shutdown-of-familiar-assignment-searches/">blog
article</a>.</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/27/2025 3:13 PM, Carl Oppedahl via
Patentpractice wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:732f8acc-79a8-4eeb-8975-da97273de72d@oppedahl.com">
<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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<p><b><br>
</b></p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/27/2025 12:41 PM, U.S. Patent
and Trademark Office wrote:<br>
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class="TextRun SCXW173090663 BCX8" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span
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class="NormalTextRun SCXW173090663 BCX8" data-ccp-parastyle="No Spacing">enhances
</span><span
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search process</span></span></h2>
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<p><span
data-contrast="none">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
data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":0,"335551620":0,"335559738":240,"335559739":240,"335559740":240}"> </span></p>
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<p><span
data-contrast="none">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
data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":0,"335551620":0,"335559738":240,"335559739":240,"335559740":240}"> </span></p>
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<p><span
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improve the customer
experience, all
previous assignment
services will be
centrally located in
Assignment Center. The
new Assignment Search
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