[Patentpractice] Maybe progress on Patent Center catch-up for plant filings?

[Carl Oppedahl]

I know there are some members of the listserv whose daily work includes 
plant filings.  Just now by chance I stumbled upon a place in one of the 
Patent Center click-paths that includes this notification:

    Plant Follow on Application

    You can initiate a follow on for your Plant application using the
    “Existing submissions” menu or activity card.  Please continue to
    use the fee transmittal PTO/SB/17 for any fees that you would like
    to calculate and pay.
    NOTE: DO NOT USE the Plant Non-Provisional option in the “New
    submissions” menu or activity card. Please continue follow the
    COVID-19 Plant application filing procedure for filing Plant
    applications.

In typical USPTO software developer style, the notification is, of 
course, undated.  So this might be old news.

But anyway, maybe what this means is that after half a year of 
dithering, the developers have managed to get the follow-on-submissions 
function working for plant filings.

Maybe one or another of our plant patent enthusiasts can tell me if this 
is old news or new news.

Carl

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