[Patentpractice] Interesting notice from USPTO re data breach

[Jeffrey Semprebon]

Raising the question of whether the USPTO's response has been compliant
with any relevant federal or state laws regarding requirements to report
data breaches to those potentially affected.


-Jeff

Jeffrey E. Semprebon
Semprebon Patent Services
www.semprebonps.com
72 Myrtle Street
Claremont, New Hampshire 03743

On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 6:45 AM Carl Oppedahl via Patentpractice <
patentpractice at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:

> I consider it vanishingly unlikely that the CIO successfully communicated
> this *mea culpa* Notice to all or even most of the US patent applicants
> whose invention titles got revealed to third parties.
>
> ...
>


> The vast majority of US patent applicants who *did* have their invention
> titles revealed to a third party probably did not receive the CIO's *mea
> culpa* Notice, because I am sure the developers of Ass. Center failed to
> log the mistyped application numbers.  If an applicant whose invention
> title got revealed in this way to a third party did receive the CIO's *mea
> culpa* Notice, it would only be due to a coincidence that the applicant
> had by chance itself made use of Ass. Center during the time of the data
> breach.
>
>
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