[Patentpractice] Fwd: USPTO enhances assignment records search process

Tue Sep 2 13:57:55 UTC 2025

" Note, too, that this mess falls a day before the end of the fiscal year.
Lots of folks at the USPTO will be completely focused on internal rush-rush
things relating to the imminent end of the fiscal year and will be unable
to make time for things like a defective launch of a new software system.  "

Lots, the majority, of folks, will be on vacation using their "user or
lose" leave.

On Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM Carl Oppedahl via Patentpractice <
patentpractice at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:

> The answer appears to be "no".  I suspect the situation is that the USPTO
> did absolutely no beta testing with any paying customers of the USPTO.  I
> suspect that to the extent that anything along the lines of "testing"
> happened, it was only by persons who were not at arm's length from the
> software developers.
>
> Note, by the way, that the date that the existing systems will get cut off
> (September 27) falls on a Saturday.  This is a day when every USPTO support
> office is closed.  The same is true of the following day (Sunday).  I
> predict there will be defects in the successor system.  This means that
> Monday morning, September 29, will be a big day for lots of telephone calls
> to the various USPTO support offices to try to get the defects remedied.
>
> Note, too, that this mess falls a day before the end of the fiscal year.
> Lots of folks at the USPTO will be completely focused on internal rush-rush
> things relating to the imminent end of the fiscal year and will be unable
> to make time for things like a defective launch of a new software system.
> On 8/27/2025 2:54 PM, Dan Feigelson via Patentpractice wrote:
>
> Was anyone in this group involved in beta testing of the USPTO's new
> assignment search program? Is there a reason there can't be a transitory
> period when we can compare the old and new programs?
>
> I'm sure I'm not the only one who is not reassured by this USPTO
> announcement.
>
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> Date: Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
> Subject: USPTO enhances assignment records search process
> To: <djf at iliplaw.com>
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> Assignment Search will be live effective September 27, 2025
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> News Brief
> USPTO enhances assignment records search process
>
> The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is streamlining the overall
> assignment search experience by replacing two legacy search
> applications—Patent Assignment Search and Assignments on the Web—with one,
> more reliable, secure, and easy to use Assignment Search application.
>
> Starting on September 27, 2025, Assignment Search will be live, and the
> two legacy systems will cease to be available. This new, web-based
> application provides customers seeking patent and trademark assignment
> information with reliable, detailed results via a modernized interface.
> Customers can perform basic searches and refine their searches using the
> filtering options available in the “advanced search” field of the tool.
>
> To improve the customer experience, all previous assignment services will
> be centrally located in Assignment Center. The new Assignment Search
> application can be found in *Assignment Center
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