[Patentpractice] Let's try to collect all of our Assignment Center bugs

[Robert Blaha]

Saved contacts correspond to the Address Book in your MyUSPTO account. Open the Account menu item below your name on the MyUSPTO webpage. Scroll down the page. Just below your Attorney bar membership is an Address book interface.  Unfortunately, it appears to require a manual DIY entry of any contact that you might want to add. I could not locate a mechanism for importing contact data. Furthermore, it seems to me to fail to populate all the attorney information in the MyUSPTO account into the Assignment Center interface even when one inserts their own name in the contact list.

Assignment Center is indeed another example of the “trust us” you will like what we provide attitude at the USPTO. The interface exhibits a lack of understanding of how applicants and their representatives operate outside the USPTO.

YMMV but I’d give this saved contact information implementation half a star on a scale of 1 to 5. 😊 Yes, it does not warrant a score on my satisfaction scale. It is a non-starter. I would not miss this implementation of the saved contact information.

Bob


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Subject: Re: [Patentpractice] Let's try to collect all of our Assignment Center bugs

For some reason, the saved contact information doesn’t save for me. Does that work for anyone else? Is there a trick to it?

On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 12:46 PM Carl Oppedahl via Patentpractice <patentpractice at oppedahl-lists.com<mailto:patentpractice at oppedahl-lists.com>> wrote:

I imagine some may have read my blog article from yesterday entitled USPTO fails to let me know that it fixed a defect that I reported in Assignment Center<https://blog.oppedahl.com/uspto-fails-to-let-me-know-that-it-fixed-a-defect-that-i-reported-in-assignment-center/>.

I am not exactly sure whether yesterday's blog post had anything to do with it, but just now a phone call came in from a person who answers to Joyce R. Johnson, who is the manager of the Assignment Branch.  He has offered to spend some time with me reviewing the various defects in Assignment Center.

This strikes me as a perfect time to try to collect in one place all of our Assignment Center bugs.

I guess maybe post them to this listserv, and I will try as best I can to collect them for the discussion with this fellow.

Oh and I guess the other thing is, it would be good to get at least one more person from the patent community involved in the discussion, for a lot of reasons.  Volunteers welcome.



Carl


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