[Patentpractice] why do uspto programmers design inefficiency into the system?

[Dan Feigelson]

I'm logged into patentcenter, looking at one of my cases, and I want to see
the assignment information they have on record.  When I click on
"assignments", I get a pop-up window saying, "Patent Center only displays
assignment information for non-public applications to user authorized to
access the application. This application is open to the public. Please use
Assignment Search to search assignment information for applications open to
the public. https://assignment.uspto.gov/patent/index.html#/patent/search".

Inasmuch as from within patentcrapper, I can see the assignment info for my
*un*published applications, it's clear that whoever wrote the notice was
*trying* to say, "The application you're looking at has published, so we're
not making assignment information available to you in Patent Crapper, go to
Assignment Center, nyeah nyeah nyeah."

Quite a contrast from what we saw earlier in the week with Mike Richardson
and WIPO regarding the applicant email field in ePCT...

Dan

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://oppedahl-lists.com/pipermail/patentpractice_oppedahl-lists.com/attachments/20250626/dfdc1ee2/attachment.html>