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

[Carl Oppedahl]

Mr. Polutta is the same person who said on February 7 that I would hear 
back in response to my letter about the "DOCX safeguard".  See 
https://blog.oppedahl.com/maybe-uspto-will-clarify-the-docx-safeguard/ 
.  As of today, more than two months have passed and no answer from him 
on the "DOCX safeguard".

On 4/29/2024 4:04 PM, Carl Oppedahl via Patentpractice wrote:
>
> 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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