<div dir="ltr"><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">My client just bought some patent applications from a seller, including some PCT's. I have and Assignment and a Power.</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">How do I change "applicant" and Power of Attorney in ePCT? I got to epCT > Actions >
<span class="gmail-b-stepstep-name"><span>Rule 92bis change request I see how to do two things, neither of which really fits, and it's odd for ePCT to not have an obviously-right thing to do --</span></span></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-b-stepstep-name"><span> -- select the current "applicant" and use the pencil to "change applicant" -- but that is only for changes of <b>name</b><i> </i>to the same applicant (heir, name change, merger, etc.) I want a <b>different</b> applicant</span></span></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-b-stepstep-name"><span> -- "edit parties" to add a new applicant. I can fill that out, but there's no way to upload an Assignment</span></span></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-b-stepstep-name"><span><br></span></span></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-b-stepstep-name"><span>If I do Upload documents > IB > Assignment, then I'm locked out the 92bis change, can't do it in the same transaction.<br></span></span></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-b-stepstep-name"><span><br></span></span></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-b-stepstep-name"><span>The thing I'm looking for probably does a Change of Applicant, and <b>simultaneously </b>asks for upload of an assignment <b>and simultaneously </b>a Power of Attorney, I would think. For this kind of change of Applicant, it would ask for upload of an Assignment as a supporting document <b>simultaneously</b>. I can't find any of these that guarantees doing everything all at once. I rememebr that it used to be that if you did part of a Rule 92bis change, you'd get locked out for 24 hours, so I didn't want to do that, and I tried to avoid it until I was forced into that corner.<br></span></span></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-b-stepstep-name"><span><br></span></span></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-b-stepstep-name"><span>I stitched something together that gives me heartburn, and will no doubt create heartburn for our friends in Geneva. And now, to my surprise, I am not locked out. Maybe that's the fundamental change.<br></span></span></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-b-stepstep-name"><span><br></span></span></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-b-stepstep-name"><span>Mike or Anne, for this kind of thing, "Change Applicant" and upload Assignment and Change Agent and Upload Power of Attorney are all part and parcel of the same transaction. It's not at all clear how to do that without the 24-hour lockout.<br></span></span></span></font></div><div>
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