[Patentpractice] Guest and unregistered users will no longer be able to access Patent Center effective 09/11/2025

[Carl Oppedahl]

Hello Randall.  Are you not subscribed to the Patent Center listserv?  
This has been discussed in detail there.   More than 36 postings in the 
past week.  So much has been said that I cannot readily summarize the 
dozens of postings in a single email here.

Read the notice again and again and you will realize it is so vaguely 
worded that maybe the affected population includes "both current and 
future users" and not merely "guest and unregistered users".

The notice of course utterly fails to explain how any particular 
customer of Patent Center might be able to work out whether his or her 
access will get cut off in five days.  So for example, once you are 
logged in, you can click on your name in the upper right corner and then 
click on "account".

  * You might see "PATENT CENTER PROOFED" in all uppercase letters in a
    blue box.  Or you might not.
  * You might see "IDME VERIFIED" in all uppercase letters in a green
    box.  Or you might not.

No communication from the Patent Center developers has said a word about 
whether the presence of the blue box means you can relax and your life 
will not be turned upside-down in five days.

No communication from the Patent Center developers has said a word about 
whether the presence of the green box means you can relax and your life 
will not be turned upside-down in five days.

For me personally, I have the blue box but not the green box.  At least 
one member of the Patent Center listserv has both boxes.

Do you have the blue box?  Do you have the green box?

On 9/5/2025 9:30 PM, Randall Svihla via Patentpractice wrote:
>
> Has anyone seen this notice on the USPTO's website?
>
> https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/news-updates/uspto-implementing-additional-security-measures-patent-center-0 
>
>
> Guest and unregistered users will no longer be able to access Patent 
> Center effective 09/11/2025.
>
> I wonder if they will break anything when they implement this on 
> 09/11/2025.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Randall S. Svihla
>
> NSIP Law
>
> Washington, D.C.
>
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