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

[Randall Svihla]

My guess is that they figured that if they don't allow any assignment data to be displayed via Patent Center, they can't have another data leak of assignment data for unpublished applications.


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Sounds like an excuse, not a reason.

Can someone explain why the ONLY way to fix the issue behind the data leak was to prevent practitioners from seeing assignment data for their own published cases in PC?

On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM Randall Svihla <rsvihla at nsiplaw.com<mailto:rsvihla at nsiplaw.com>> wrote:
Because of the assignment data leak last year.


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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<https://gcfagjf.r.af.d.sendibt2.com/tr/cl/-EmW0t0ZBqiB0ZKGIWv8Yi9y-p-aEjx_tHlbcJ0evDwDqI8Wtq9lbVnIkL-9WdwR-qAhPVZosSXDgEe9oloxMwsKxl9ZH8U5cu-wWvAthLhLM5Nm4qQsDNihUKEXvSvrGW8xisjgjctnwINgj0MglWvwDk9D9f9kXFhKWE72zVN9rjPwoT5uMJoxaCO6u2zZqTA87pIhkiTmBtrTLovCikG0da1C8m9LP5D58OdD5yaNdCN_dgBdOeQ1W_v0rSPZ5FNUm7hCK8Toro6w4tcd0VUmFudjsZsnLkNV1U60cNZb_Px7OzfCGZFP4Z76uVUUYVbNqq-EaADHtaLcNzj0-w>".

Inasmuch as from within patentcrapper, I can see the assignment info for my unpublished applications, it's clear that whoever wrote the notice was trying to say, "The application you're looking at has published, so we're not making assignment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
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