[Patentpractice] Is Assignment Center still broken?
Kimberly Douglas
kimberly at klspatents.com
Wed May 8 15:17:49 UTC 2024
I just went in via Chrome and everything appeared to be working.
I prefer EPAS and my templates all day, every day over the Assignment Center. It's very annoying that the PTO rolled out this "new & improved" interface without the ability to create templates and save contacts. The copying function is ripe for introducing unintended errors into the process. When I reached out to them about this functionality they said they "hoped" to have that feature "someday" <insert eyeroll>
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1. Assignment Center is broken (Carl Oppedahl)
2. Re: Assignment Center is broken (Suzannah K. Sundby)
3. Re: Assignment Center is broken (Daniel Feigelson)
4. Is Assignment Center still broken? (Carl Oppedahl)
5. Re: Is Assignment Center still broken? (Randall Svihla)
6. Re: Is Assignment Center still broken? (Goldberg, Judi)
7. Re: Is Assignment Center still broken?
(Allen Richter (allenr at richterpatent.com))
8. Re: Is Assignment Center still broken? (Katherine Koenig)
9. Re: Is Assignment Center still broken? (Bruce Young)
10. Assignment Center is broken for IPv6 (Carl Oppedahl)
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Assignment Center is broken.? The system status page https://www.uspto.gov/blog/ebiz/ lists a few systems that have scheduled outages right now (midnight- 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 7 ET) but Assignment center is not one of the listed systems.
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Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 11:12:22 +0000
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Hmm. Sure, Ass Center is better? right.
I don?t recall EPAS being broken... ever.
And I?ve been filing assignments myself for 20+ years.
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Assignment Center is broken. The system status page https://www.uspto.gov/blog/ebiz/ lists a few systems that have scheduled outages right now (midnight- 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 7 ET) but Assignment center is not one of the listed systems.
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Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 14:29:03 +0300
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Ass. Center *IS* better. Just not for applicants and patentees. For someone at the PTO who got to check a box in a performance review for taking Ass.
Center online by some deadline, and is now at a higher pay grade.
Get your priorities straight, Suzannah!
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> Hmm. Sure, Ass Center is better? right.
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> Assignment Center is broken. The system status page
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Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 08:16:41 -0600
From: Carl Oppedahl <carl at oppedahl.com>
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As far as I can see, Assignment Center is still broken.? Are others able to make use of Assignment Center just now?
On 5/7/2024 2:38 AM, Carl Oppedahl via Patentpractice wrote:
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> Assignment Center is broken.? The system status page
> https://www.uspto.gov/blog/ebiz/ lists a few systems that have
> scheduled outages right now (midnight- 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 7 ET)
> but Assignment center is not one of the listed systems.
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Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 14:22:42 +0000
From: Randall Svihla <rsvihla at nsiplaw.com>
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Hi, Carl
I just checked and I can see the previously uploaded assignments and it will let me start a new assignment. I'm using Windows 10 and Chrome.
Best regards,
Randall S. Svihla
NSIP Law
Washington, D.C.
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As far as I can see, Assignment Center is still broken. Are others able to make use of Assignment Center just now?
On 5/7/2024 2:38 AM, Carl Oppedahl via Patentpractice wrote:
Assignment Center is broken. The system status page https://www.uspto.gov/blog/ebiz/ lists a few systems that have scheduled outages right now (midnight- 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 7 ET) but Assignment center is not one of the listed systems.
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Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 14:23:56 +0000
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Hi Carl - I?m able to get into Assignment Center and it seems to be working ok. I went in through the Patent pull-down in PatentCenter to Record Assignment, using Edge, if that?s helpful. Sorry you?re having trouble with the site.
Be well,
Judi
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As far as I can see, Assignment Center is still broken. Are others able to make use of Assignment Center just now?
On 5/7/2024 2:38 AM, Carl Oppedahl via Patentpractice wrote:
Assignment Center is broken. The system status page https://www.uspto.gov/blog/ebiz/ lists a few systems that have scheduled outages right now (midnight- 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 7 ET) but Assignment center is not one of the listed systems.
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Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 14:25:39 +0000
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The notice reminds me of the ?It?s not you, it?s me? phrase, coined by George Costanza.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uAj4wBIU-8
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As far as I can see, Assignment Center is still broken. Are others able to make use of Assignment Center just now?
On 5/7/2024 2:38 AM, Carl Oppedahl via Patentpractice wrote:
Assignment Center is broken. The system status page https://www.uspto.gov/blog/ebiz/ lists a few systems that have scheduled outages right now (midnight- 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 7 ET) but Assignment center is not one of the listed systems.
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Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 14:28:20 +0000
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I?m also seeing an error with Windows 11 and Firefox:
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The notice reminds me of the ?It?s not you, it?s me? phrase, coined by George Costanza.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uAj4wBIU-8
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Subject: [Patentpractice] Is Assignment Center still broken?
As far as I can see, Assignment Center is still broken. Are others able to make use of Assignment Center just now?
On 5/7/2024 2:38 AM, Carl Oppedahl via Patentpractice wrote:
Assignment Center is broken. The system status page https://www.uspto.gov/blog/ebiz/ lists a few systems that have scheduled outages right now (midnight- 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 7 ET) but Assignment center is not one of the listed systems.
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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 14:51:29 +0000
From: "Bruce Young" <bruce at youngtogether.com>
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I was just able to record an assignment. I am using Chrome on Windows 10.
-Bruce Young
(712) 541-9822
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As far as I can see, Assignment Center is still broken. Are others able to make use of Assignment Center just now?
On 5/7/2024 2:38 AM, Carl Oppedahl via Patentpractice wrote:
Assignment Center is broken. The system status page https://www.uspto.gov/blog/ebiz/ lists a few systems that have scheduled outages right now (midnight- 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 7 ET) but Assignment center is not one of the listed systems.
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Message: 10
Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 09:39:58 -0600
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Thank you everybody for reporting on this.
I tried it again on Chrome just now and same error message. Tried it with https and with http.? In Chrome, I cleared all USPTO-related cookies.? Tried it again with https and with http. Still no joy.
Tried it in Edge.? Nope, no joy.
Tried it in Firefox.?? Nope, no joy.
The various browsers puke on assignmentcenter.uspto.gov with an error message that sounds like a TLS version fail or an SSL cert chain-of-trust fail.
Just now I used the Qualys SSLabs tester to test the access to assignmentcenter.uspto.gov.? I note with great interest that the Qualys tester carries out its testing in two paths -- Assignment Center resolves not only to an IPv4 address (151.207.245.82) but also to an
IPv6 address (2610:20:5011:1604:0:0:0:82).? It crosses my mind that the non-identical results among users might be because some are using IPv6 and others are using IPv4 to reach Assignment Center.
The Qualys tests finished just now.? For both paths (the IPv4 and the
IPv6) Qualys gives a grade of "B" for the quality of USPTO's TLS and SSL for this domain.? For both paths, the USPTO's HTTPS stack fails to provide forward secrecy.? For both paths, the USPTO's HTTPS stack offers to negotiate to some very old and weak TLS cipher suites.? And HTTP simply fails, for the IPv6 stack. (The IPv6 stack is not set up with HSTS.)
(For those keeping score at home, blog.oppedahl.com gets a grade of "A"
for the TLS and SSL quality.)
Aha!? The defect in USPTO's systems is now clearer.? I turned off IPv6 on the network interface of my notebook computer, and now I have no difficulty making use of Assignment Center.
The USPTO people don't know how to configure IPv6 correctly for Assignment Center.
Time for a blog article I guess.
For those who had difficulty getting Assignment Center to work, the question I have for you is, do you have your computer set up to do IPv6 as well as IPv4?
On 5/7/2024 8:51 AM, Bruce Young via Patentpractice wrote:
> I was just able to record an assignment. I am using Chrome on Windows 10.
>
> -Bruce Young
>
> (712) 541-9822
>
> *From:*Patentpractice <patentpractice-bounces at oppedahl-lists.com> *On
> Behalf Of *Carl Oppedahl via Patentpractice
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 7, 2024 9:17 AM
> *To:* patentpractice at oppedahl-lists.com
> *Cc:* Carl Oppedahl <carl at oppedahl.com>
> *Subject:* [Patentpractice] Is Assignment Center still broken?
>
> As far as I can see, Assignment Center is still broken.? Are others
> able to make use of Assignment Center just now?
>
> On 5/7/2024 2:38 AM, Carl Oppedahl via Patentpractice wrote:
>
> Assignment Center is broken.? The system status page
> https://www.uspto.gov/blog/ebiz/ lists a few systems that have
> scheduled outages right now (midnight- 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 7
> ET) but Assignment center is not one of the listed systems.
>
>
>
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