[Patentcenter] Patentcenter does not scale well

[Dan Feigelson]

I don't recall this ever happening with PAIR. I do recall that sometimes it
would take some time for a new application to show up associated with my
customer number, but that in such cases, if I searched for the particular
application by application number, I could see it.

The only glitch I recall in PAIR with seeing newly-filed stuff was that
sometimes, in big IDS uploads, the prior art publications wouldn't show up
for like a week. But I had the EFS acknowledgement showing what I'd
uploaded.

Water under the bridge. PTO has decided it's ok to [expletive] everyone,
and this is not an area that affects enough people to be of interest to
people in Congress, nor is the cost for any individual to challenge the PTO
worth it in comparison to the cost of compliance with the new, crappy
"improvements".

The next shoe drops tomorrow with "docx", and then next week they're
killing PTAS for who knows what.

Dan

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 2:02 PM Katherine Koenig via Patentcenter <
patentcenter at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:

> This is very sad.  The other day I filed two applications.  Neither
> immediately appeared after filing, as you describe, but one did appear by
> the next morning.  I called the AAU to ask about the second one (I called
> at 8:30am, as soon as AAU opened, and still was on hold for nearly 45
> minutes).  I was told that "it appears that the application got stuck in
> the back-end of Patent Center."  She escalated the issue and messaged some
> IT person who could help, and it did show in my workbench within 24 hours.
> She assured me that this kind of thing happened in PAIR as well, and that
> it's random, and that there's nothing we can do to prevent it from
> happening again.  I never remember this issue in PAIR, but perhaps I just
> never experienced that luck of the draw.  Has this happened to anyone else
> while using PAIR, or is it a Patent Center thing?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Katherine
>
> Dr. Katherine Koenig
> Registered Patent Attorney
> Koenig IP Works, PLLC
> 2208 Mariner Dr.
> Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316
> (954) 903-1699
> katherine at koenigipworks.com
>
>
>

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