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

[Dan Feigelson]

Thank you. That makes sense from a technical perspective (at least to
someone who is not an IT person).

On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM Vivek Ramachandran via Patentcenter <
patentcenter at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:

> More likely it's just incompetence. The current view is security by
> locking down access to public data. They shut down more than the
> assingments. The entire PEDS system was turned off.
>
> They should have separated the two systems from get go. One stores data
> that is public and one stores data that is non-public. Turns out they were
> using access control from the same database. To fix this, they would have
> had to replicate their expensive system. Instead they chose to shut it all
> down. Rate limit patent center to prevent leaks. It's security by hampering
> data access.
>
> Seems to be why we have to put up with a suboptimal system.
>
>
>

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