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

[Dan Feigelson]

Oy.

"It doesn't matter that the public can't see it."

Public notice is precisely the reason the statute encourages early
recordation of assignments, by saying that if you don't record within 3
months of execution and then someone else records a later-executed
assignment before you record, that later-executed earlier-recorded
assignment wins. But why should that interest the PTO?



On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM Katherine Koenig via Patentcenter <
patentcenter at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:

> Erin, they told me the same thing when I’d asked about assignments not
> appearing in the reel/frame (or other) search.  I’m paraphrasing, but the
> response was something like, “if you received a notice of recordation with
> a reel/frame number, it’s been recorded.  It doesn’t matter that the public
> can’t see it.”
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> Best regards,
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> Katherine
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