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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">I had the exact same thing happen, despite having filed correction and receiving a corrected filing receipt.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Pct <pct-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Scott Nielson via Pct<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 17, 2025 5:46 PM<br>
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<b>Cc:</b> Scott Nielson <scnielson@outlook.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Pct] Can applicant name for US national-phase entry differ from applicant name for PCT application?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:.75pt"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;color:white">You should not list a different applicant on the ADS when you file a 371 application (as I found out the hard way). You need to list the applicant listed on the
PCT application and then follow the requirements to change the name of the applicant.</span><span style="font-size:1.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:white">\u200a</span><span style="font-size:1.0pt;color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos Serif",serif;color:black">You should not list a different applicant on the ADS when you file a 371 application (as I found out the hard way). You need to list the applicant listed on the
PCT application and then follow the requirements to change the name of the applicant.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos Serif",serif;color:black">In my case, the PCT application listed the inventors as the applicants for purposes of the U.S. I listed the company as the applicant in the ADS when I filed the
371 application and received a filing receipt acknowledging the company as the applicant. Later, after I paid the issue fee, I received a notice that the USPTO mistakenly granted a request to change the applicant and it had reverted the change so that the
inventors were now the applicants. I had to reply to the notice with everything required to change the applicant.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> Pct <<a href="mailto:pct-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com">pct-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com</a>>
on behalf of Krista Jacobsen via Pct <<a href="mailto:pct@oppedahl-lists.com">pct@oppedahl-lists.com</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 17, 2025 6:22 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:Pct@oppedahl-lists.com">Pct@oppedahl-lists.com</a> <<a href="mailto:pct@oppedahl-lists.com">pct@oppedahl-lists.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Krista Jacobsen <<a href="mailto:krista@jacobseniplaw.com">krista@jacobseniplaw.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Pct] Can applicant name for US national-phase entry differ from applicant name for PCT application?</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I am preparing the paperwork to enter the national phase in the U.S. from a PCT application.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">When the PCT application was filed, the name of the company was "Oldname." The inventors executed an assignment to Oldname. After the PCT application was filed, the company changed its name to "Newname." It's
the same entity, just with a different name.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">As Oldname doesn't exist anymore, I want to name Newname as the applicant in the ADS that will accompany the national-phase filing in the U.S. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Will there be any USPTO snafus because the applicant of the PCT application does not match the applicant named in the U.S. national-phase entry papers? I couldn't find anything in the MPEP that addresses this
situation, so I wanted to check with the brain trust. I'm hoping someone has had this situation before, or perhaps a situation in which the PCT application was assigned to a different entity prior to national-phase entry, and you named the new owner as the
applicant.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">It seems like this shouldn't be an issue, but the USPTO seems to have endless ways to surprise me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Thanks in advance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Krista<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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