[Patentpractice] Assignment Center - can you save progress part way through? No

[Carl Oppedahl]

Nope, it turns out to be impossible to save the submission package part 
way through.  See 
https://blog.oppedahl.com/some-of-the-defects-in-the-new-assignment-center/ 
.

On 1/29/2024 4:15 PM, Carl Oppedahl via Patentpractice wrote:
>
> Yes, it looks like that.
>
> It looks like /*if the exact same person*/ wants to save progress and 
> come back, they maybe can do that.  There is one extremely blurry 
> slide toward the beginning of the slide deck that gives the impression 
> that you can do that.  But it looks like it is impossible to pass a 
> partially completed filing project over to a colleague for a "second 
> pair of eyes".  Or to pass it to a colleague for e-signature.
>
> On 1/29/2024 4:05 PM, James Katz via Patentpractice wrote:
>>
>> It also seems that they removed any ability to “save progress” or 
>> otherwise save a submission for review before it is submitted.
>>
>> So there goes our workflow where our assistants upload an assignment 
>> and save it before submission, then forward the EPAS link to the 
>> attorney for review before the assistant then submits.
>>
>> Jim
>>
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>> *From: *Patentpractice <patentpractice-bounces at oppedahl-lists.com> on 
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>> *Date: *Monday, January 29, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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>> *Cc: *Carl Oppedahl <carl at oppedahl.com>
>> *Subject: *[Patentpractice] some initial reactions to the USPTO's 
>> training slides for son-of-EPAS
>>
>> */Cumbersome login now required. /*It used to be that anybody could 
>> submit an assignment for recordation.  Now you have to do a 
>> cumbersome login with two-factor authentication.  I suspect this 
>> means the person doing the recordation session will have previously 
>> been forced to do a Real ID or other invasive prove-who-you-are 
>> procedure.
>>
>> */Stupid terminology./*  The designer of son-of-EPAS calls the 
>> recordation session "filing an application".  This is nuts.
>>
>> */No functional enhancements for the paying customer./*  After all 
>> this big talk about how wonderful this son-of-EPAS system is going to 
>> be, I clicked around a bit to try to see what functional enhancements 
>> it is going to provide.  For example I figured the least they would 
>> do is make it so that you can check the status of a recordation 
>> submission. Nope.  No enhancements of any kind so far as I can see.
>>
>> */Blocks you from including an application number that they can't 
>> find in their system. /*It looks like if your patent application is 
>> not in Patentcenter, you will be blocked from including it in your 
>> recordation submission.  I suspect this means it will be impossible 
>> to record against a PCT application filed in an Office that is not 
>> the RO/US.
>>
>>
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