[Patentcenter] our Glorious Patent Center is offline

[Daniel Feigelson]

Must be something with each of these individual's computers. Patentcenter
has all the functionality of EFS-Web. Kathi Vidal told us so!

On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 12:47 AM David M. Longo via Patentcenter <
patentcenter at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:

> Based on a call from our staff to the EBC at 4:55pm Eastern, the USPTO
> reported that Patent Center had already been offline for 20 minutes at that
> point and indicated that they had received enough calls to send up an
> escalation ticket.  Patent Center didn’t come back to life until about
> 5:25pm Eastern, *meaning we had a complete outage of Patent Center for 50
> minutes*.  With the only alternative filing methods now being paper, fax,
> or certified mail, this episode only reinforces our lack of confidence in
> the single Patent Center system with no electronic backup (like EFS-Web
> Contingency).   Another sigh….
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> Best regards,
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