[Patentcenter] document description error message deferred past three screen moves (was QPIDS filing in Patent Center)

[Carl Oppedahl]

Can you please look at ticket number CP28 
<https://patentcenter-tickets.oppedahl.com/#CP28> and see if this is the 
same as the bug you are describing?

On 2/22/2024 12:59 PM, Benjamin Keim via Patentcenter wrote:
>
> I just filed my first QPIDS request. Hopefully, it will be changed 
> soon so that non-practitioners can file (or at least start and save) 
> QPIDS requests.
>
> I found what appears to be a bug. Shocking.
>
> When filing the QPIDS request, I included an IDS coversheet document 
> that includes comments and disclaimers about the IDS. This is 
> something a particular client wants us to file.
>
> Patent Center did not automatically assign a document description to 
> this document. I proceeded without giving this document a document 
> description. I clicked the "Submit & Pay" button. Patent Center 
> displayed a spinning icon and seemed to proceed. However, it did not 
> proceed to the payment page, and it did not file the QPIDS request. 
> There was no error indication let alone an explanation that the issue 
> was a lack of document description. I added the document description 
> "Transmittal Letter" to the IDS coversheet. Then the submission 
> proceeded without problem.
>
> Patent Center should be fixed to expressly indicate an error when a 
> user tries to proceed without giving all the documents a document 
> description. The error message should indicate that the problem is 
> lack of a document description.
>
> -Ben
>
> Benjamin A. Keim
>
> (206) 920-9038
>
> _ben at newportip.com <mailto:ben at newportip.com>_
>
>
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