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

[Krista Jacobsen]

"Ass. Center"

LMAO, and also *chef's kiss*.

Thank you, Pamela!

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Krista S. Jacobsen
Attorney and Counselor at Law
Jacobsen IP Law
krista at jacobseniplaw.com
T:  408.455.5539
www.jacobseniplaw.com


On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 6:50 AM pbrisky--- via Patentpractice <
patentpractice at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:

> With a “100% of users choose Assignment Center” slogan beneath it.
>
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> On a side note – I had to correct an assignment recordation in response to
> a notice of non-recordation.  Ass. Center had inventors on the conveyor
> screen appearing as I had initially tried to correct them – meaning sans
> error.  And they were out of order.  At that point, I added the document
> they said they wanted and went through with submitting the assignment.  The
> coversheet that was produced had the inventors in the correct order.
> Additionally, the pdf download of the coversheet was blank.
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>
> I hate this system.  We have a double check in place where I prep the
> assignment recordation and someone accesses the saved submission, reviews
> it and submits it.  This does not seem possible with this system.  It is
> not customer number/sponsor based like patent center is where you can what
> other people have uploaded.  It does have a couple of nice features but I
> hate it overall.
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>
> Pamela Cei Brisky
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> Senior Patent Paralegal/Docketing Manager
>
> Fujitsu North America, Inc.
>
> Fujitsu Intellectual Property Center
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>
>
> 571-216-2112
>
> pbrisky at fujitsu.com
>
>
>
> *From:* Patentpractice <patentpractice-bounces at oppedahl-lists.com> *On
> Behalf Of *Dan Feigelson via Patentpractice
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 6, 2024 8:45 AM
> *To:* For patent practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek legal
> advice. <patentpractice at oppedahl-lists.com>
> *Cc:* Dan Feigelson <djf at iliplaw.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [Patentpractice] Assignment Center - can you save progress
> part way through? No
>
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> So many "improvements" to its IT in such a short time...I think the PTO
> should put a big "NEW AND IMPROVED" banner across its website, the same way
> that detergent or breakfast cereal or fertilizer manufacturers do on their
> products when they make the packages smaller and raise the price per
> package at the same time.
>
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>
> Dan
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> On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 1:23 PM James Katz via Patentpractice <
> patentpractice at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:
>
> So we have now found that Assignment Center appears to “silently”
> automatically save in-process submissions.  We have tested abandoning a
> submission at various screens, including at the final submission screen and
> have found that our progress was saved and we could return later to
> complete the submission.
>
>
>
> So in order to implement a second pair of eyes on submissions, our
> assistants will stop once they reach the submit screen, return to the home
> screen, go back in to the saved submission and print the completed cover
> sheet to PDF, they will then email that PDF to the attorney along with a
> copy of the assignment document that was uploaded.  The attorney will
> review and respond with approval after which the assistant will go back in
> and submit.  At least one downside to this approach is that the attorney
> will be unable to review the actual uploaded assignment document.  So if
> the wrong document was uploaded, but the right document was attached to the
> email for review, the attorney will not know.
>
>
>
> Another solution we considered but discarded was to create a dedicated
> MyUSPTO account for assignment submissions to which everyone has access.
> This would allow one to go in and review a saved submission.  However, not
> only would this be cumbersome to have to log out of one’s personal MyUSPTO
> account and into another (and maintain two 2FA entries, etc.), it was also
> unclear if multiple users could be logged in to the same account at once. I
> also did not check if this would violate some PTO TOS somewhere.
>
>
>
> Another thing we have found is that when entering multiple email addresses
> to receive submission confirmations, etc., each recipient will receive an
> email addressed only to them. So from that email you cannot tell who the
> other recipients are.  Furthermore, the email itself, e.g., the subject
> line and body, do not identify the application number or client/matter.
> Only the id number assigned to the submission by Assignment Center is
> identified.  You have to open up the attached cover sheet document to see
> the application number.
>
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