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will be recalled that assignments need to be recorded within
three months of the date of execution (35 U.S. Code § 261, 15
U.S. Code § 1060). If you happen to have in hand an assignment
that was executed on July 16, 2025, then it needs to be recorded
by today, October 16, 2025. It looks to me as though it is
impossible to do such a recordation today, given that the USPTO
has shut down Assignment Center.</span></p>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://blog.oppedahl.com/every-uspto-system-relating-to-assignments-is-broken-today/">blog
article</a>.</span></p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/27/2025 2:50 AM, Carl Oppedahl via
Patentpractice wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:edd917b3-c089-45ef-8e8e-fa895a6dc798@oppedahl.com">
<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/"
moz-do-not-send="true">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>
<blockquote>
<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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</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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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
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<p><span
data-contrast="none">To
improve the customer
experience, all
previous assignment
services will be
centrally located in
Assignment Center.
The new Assignment
Search application
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2025.</span><span
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