[Patentcenter] Patent Center is broken?

[Carl Oppedahl]

I am trying to make use of Patent Center just now (4:10 AM ET). No joy.  
It is impossible to do anything at Patent Center just now.  It appears 
as a blank screen.

If I do a "view source" on the blank screen, I learn that the USPTO 
system did actually serve up fifteen thousand characters of HTML, that 
get rendered only as whitespace.

Predictably, there is no mention of this outage at 
https://www.uspto.gov/system-status .

I tried entering Patent Center "sideways", you know, by going and 
logging in at MyUSPTO and then clicking around to try to get into Patent 
Center.  Nope.  Same blank screen.

In my logged-in status, I am able to see normal-looking screens in 
Financial Manager and Ass Center and MyUSPTO.  But again and again, 
nothing from Patent Center other than a blank screen.

Oops.  Now after a dozen tries, Patent Center is rendering with visible 
material on the screen.  But it's the "jumpy" Patent Center, the one 
that waits until I have uploaded a document or two, maybe selected a fee 
to pay, and then at a time when I do not have my fingers on the keyboard 
or hand on a mouse, Patent Center jumps to its main action screen and my 
e-filing session has disappeared.  The function that is meant to be a 
successor to EFS-Web is flaky right now.



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