[Patentpractice] Letter to Messrs. Polutta and Stclair about erroneous release of invention titles

[Carl Oppedahl]

The notice identifies Mr. Polutta and Mr. Stclair as the people who will 
answer questions about this data leak.  So I realized I need to ask them 
about it.  Here is the email that I sent to them today.

Who would like to make book on how promptly they will get back to me on 
this?



-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: 	Erroneous release of invention titles
Date: 	Mon, 29 Apr 2024 15:48:30 -0600
From: 	Carl Oppedahl <carl at oppedahl.com>
To: 	patent.practice at uspto.gov



Hello Mr. Polutta and Mr. Stclair.   Your Notice dated April 27 raises 
many questions.

How did you pick the list of recipients for your Notice?

I imagine that the way you picked this list was by identifying all of 
the patent applications for which a document got recorded in Assignment 
Center between February 5, 2024 and March 29, 2024. Is that how you 
picked this list?   And then you sent the Notice to the point of contact 
for each of those patent applications? Can you confirm this?

When you were getting ready to send the Notice to the points-of-contact 
identified above, did you cross-check to see if the person who did the 
Assignment Center recordation was the same person who filed the patent 
application in the first place?  My best guess is that you did not carry 
out such a cross-check.  Can you confirm this?

What about the cases where somebody was using Assignment Center between 
February 5, 2024 and March 29, 2024, and typed in a particular 
application number, and saw the invention title, and then did not click 
"submit"?  Did you send the Notice to the point of contact for those 
application numbers?  My best guess is that the USPTO never logged such 
instances, meaning that no Notice got sent to points of contact for such 
application numbers.  I hope to get a clear yes-or-no answer from you on 
this.

As you may imagine, patent practitioners need to know the answers to 
these questions so that we may communicate appropriately with all 
affected clients, not merely the clients for which you sent out this 
Notice.  I hope I may hear back from you very promptly.

Carl Oppedahl

Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC


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