[Patentpractice] Interesting notice from USPTO re data breach

[Carl Oppedahl]

On 4/29/2024 8:48 AM, Neil R. Ormos via Patentpractice wrote:
> Perhaps the notice raises these additional questions:
>
>    (1) The notice claims that the PTO first reproduced the problem on day D, and fixed it on day D+1.  "Reproduced" implies that someone else, e.g., a user, reported the problem.  How many days did it take after the first user report for the PTO to reproduce the problem?

The USPTO rolled out Assignment Center on February 5, 2024.  The USPTO 
first reproduced the problem at least a week and a half before the 
rollout of Assignment Center, when it prepared USPTO’s/Assignment Center 
Training Guide/. Here it is:

The USPTO says it fixed the problem on March 29, 2024.


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