[Patentpractice] Interesting notice from USPTO re data breach

Carl Oppedahl carl at oppedahl.com
Mon Apr 29 18:15:59 UTC 2024


The reason the USPTO email address is barely readable is, the original 
PDF was in blue or some other non-monochrome color.  And the CIO's 
Patent Center system halftoned the blue into blur.

On 4/29/2024 11:05 AM, Dan Feigelson via Patentpractice wrote:
> Carl, good catch, that was due to the OCR I did of the pdf that the 
> PTO sent.  Here's a screenshot of the actual paragraph:
>
> image.png
>
> Not sure why the uspto email address is barely readable...
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 28, 2024 at 11:49 PM Carl Oppedahl via Patentpractice 
> <patentpractice at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:
>
>     This notice says:
>
>         Inquiries regarding this matter may be directed ... via email
>         addressed to ugPto.gov.
>
>     I am pretty sure if I were to address email "to ugPto.gov" it
>     would fail to reach its destination.  This does not instill
>     confidence in our CIO.
>
>
>
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