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

[John Hammond]

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From: Patentpractice [mailto:patentpractice-bounces at oppedahl-lists.com] On Behalf Of Carl Oppedahl via Patentpractice
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2024 6:05 PM
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Cc: Carl Oppedahl
Subject: [Patentpractice] Letter to Messrs. Polutta and Stclair about erroneous release of invention titles

 

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  <mailto:carl at oppedahl.com> <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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