[Patentcenter] our Glorious Patent Center is offline

[Doreen Trujillo]

I wanted to “LOL” at first, but this is sadly true.


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Doreen Y. Trujillo
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From: Patentcenter <patentcenter-bounces at oppedahl-lists.com> On Behalf Of Suzannah K. Sundby via Patentcenter
Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2024 5:04 AM
To: For bug reports, feature requests, and tips and tricks about Patent Center. <patentcenter at oppedahl-lists.com>
Cc: Suzannah K. Sundby <suzannah at canadylortz.com>; David M. Longo <DLongo at oblon.com>
Subject: Re: [Patentcenter] our Glorious Patent Center is offline

Well, to be fair… since EFS-Web is now defunct/offline, yes, PatentCrapper does have all the functionality of EFS-Web.

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From: Patentcenter <patentcenter-bounces at oppedahl-lists.com<mailto:patentcenter-bounces at oppedahl-lists.com>> On Behalf Of Daniel Feigelson via Patentcenter
Sent: Wednesday, January 3, 2024 6:44 PM
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Subject: Re: [Patentcenter] our Glorious Patent Center is offline


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<mailto: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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_Dave



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