[Patentpractice] Assignment Center Upgrade

[Carl Oppedahl]

On 10/21/2025 6:40 PM, Scott Nielson via Patentpractice wrote:
> Do you have any feedback on the new assignment center? I haven't 
> explored it thoroughly yet, but it seems that searching for 
> assignments, which previously had issues, is working now.

It's clear that the USPTO did no regression testing or meaningful beta 
testing of the new Assignment Center.

To give one example, just now I selected at random one of our pending 
cases that is the national phase of a PCT application.

In the old assignment search system, which has now been shut down, I 
could plug in my choice of either the PCT number or the US-series 
application number.  Either of the two searches yielded the reel and 
frame number.

But in the new Assignment Center, the search using the PCT number 
/*wrongly comes back empty*/.  In contrast, the US-series application 
number yields the reel and frame number.

It's worse than that, I just realized.  The Abstract of Title that 
Assignment Center gave me for the US-series application number has a 
field for the PCT number.  And this field in the Abstract of Title says 
"N/A" when of course it should list the PCT number.

If the developers got these two things wrong (and they did), then I 
cringe to think how many other things they may have gotten wrong.

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