[Patentpractice] Recorded Assignments; How to Access

[Carl Oppedahl]

Thank you for taking the initiative to phone up the Assignment Branch 
and thank you for posting.

What's weird about this situation is that in the old days (EPAS/ETAS and 
PAIR) this uploading of reel and frame numbers from one system to the 
next was automated.  It's the sort of thing computers are supposed to be 
good at.  A simple cron job (Wikipedia article 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron>) would make it happen.

And now what we have, apparently, is abject failure on the part of the 
USPTO developers of Assignment Center and Patent Center to carry out the 
one-time tasks needed to set up these seemingly simple recurring tasks.  
And so there are accumulated backlogs of simple tasks not getting done.

On 12/13/2024 8:22 PM, Jennifer via Patentpractice wrote:
> I called Ass. Center about this issue recently. Evidently there's a 
> pretty sizable backlog of uploading recorded assignment data to the 
> website.  It might take a couple of months.
>
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2024, 7:03 PM Scott Nielson via Patentpractice 
> <patentpractice at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:
>
>     I recorded an assignment against two pending patent applications
>     directed to the same thing. Both have both been published but
>     neither has been granted. I received the notice of recordation
>     over a week ago. I still cannot find where it is available on the
>     USPTO's website. It does not show up on the patent assignment
>     search page (link
>     <https://assignment.uspto.gov/patent/index.html#/patent/search>)
>     when I search by either application number. Assignment info is no
>     longer available in Patent Center.
>
>     Am I doing something wrong? Why isn't the assignment showing up
>     when I search for it on the assignment search page?
>
>     Hypothetically speaking, let's assume the inventor is claiming
>     ownership of one of the applications and actively seeking
>     investors to monetize it. In that case, the assignee would like
>     the assignment to show up when the investors review the patent
>     application as a way to discourage the inventor's behavior.
>
>     *Scott Nielson*
>
>     801-660-4400
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