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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/21/2025 6:40 PM, Scott Nielson
via Patentpractice wrote:<br>
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Do you have any feedback on the new assignment center? I haven't
explored it thoroughly yet, but it seems that searching for
assignments, which previously had issues, is working now.</div>
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<p>It's clear that the USPTO did no regression testing or meaningful
beta testing of the new Assignment Center.</p>
<p>To give one example, just now I selected at random one of our
pending cases that is the national phase of a PCT application.</p>
<p>In the old assignment search system, which has now been shut
down, I could plug in my choice of either the PCT number or the
US-series application number. Either of the two searches yielded
the reel and frame number. </p>
<p>But in the new Assignment Center, the search using the PCT
number <i><b>wrongly comes back empty</b></i>. In contrast, the
US-series application number yields the reel and frame number.</p>
<p>It's worse than that, I just realized. The Abstract of Title
that Assignment Center gave me for the US-series application
number has a field for the PCT number. And this field in the
Abstract of Title says "N/A" when of course it should list the PCT
number.</p>
<p>If the developers got these two things wrong (and they did), then
I cringe to think how many other things they may have gotten
wrong.</p>
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