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

[Shawn Smith]

Thank you. I will give it a try.

On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 3:29 PM Robert Blaha <rblaha at srtslaw.com> wrote:

> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Bob
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> *From:* Patentpractice <patentpractice-bounces at oppedahl-lists.com> *On
> Behalf Of *Shawn Smith via Patentpractice
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> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 14, 2024 5:07 PM
> *To:* For patent practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek legal
> advice. <patentpractice at oppedahl-lists.com>
> *Cc:* Shawn Smith <shawnsmithsmith065 at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [Patentpractice] Let's try to collect all of our
> Assignment Center bugs
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> For some reason, the saved contact information doesn’t save for me. Does
> that work for anyone else? Is there a trick to it?
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> On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 12:46 PM Carl Oppedahl via Patentpractice <
> 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/>*
> .
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> 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.
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> Carl
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