[Patentpractice] I predicted this defect in Assignment Center

[Randall Svihla]

Of course, the fiction is that a PCT application that designates the U.S. filed in an Office that is not the US RO is in fact a U.S. application.  Surely we should be able to file assignments against all types of U.S. applications.


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On 1/29/2024 3:54 PM, Carl Oppedahl wrote:
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.

Yes, I predicted this defect and sure enough, the USPTO developers got this wrong.

It is impossible to record against a PCT application filed in an Office that is not the RO/US.

See https://blog.oppedahl.com/some-of-the-defects-in-the-new-assignment-center/
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