[Patentcenter] Patent Center is broken?

[Carl Oppedahl]

During the past half hour or so, I had to click and play around with 
Patent Center to get it to work.  Over and over again it would display 
something weird like duplicate authorizations, something like that.  And 
I would sort of have to click around and eventually Patent Center would 
return to its home page and would allow me to resume my work.

Invariably this would include losing any hint or suggestion of what 
particular application I was working on at the time that Patent Center 
turned weird.  So on one task I was working on, it was four times in ten 
minutes that I had to go find the application number and paste it in 
again, to get to the "Private PAIR" page for that application.

On 10/8/2024 7:42 AM, Dale Quisenberry wrote:
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> It is still not working for me.  You?
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> C. Dale Quisenberry
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> *Date: *Monday, 7 October 2024 at 3:21 am
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> *Cc: *Carl Oppedahl <carl at oppedahl.com>
> *Subject: *[Patentcenter] Patent Center is broken?
>
> 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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