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

[Carl Oppedahl]

I don't know which email client you use ... but many email clients can 
be set up with "filters".  A filter might be used to look for such 
postings to put them into a particular folder.  One could search for 
"[Patentpractice]" in the subject line or could search for a sender of 
"oppedahl-lists.com".

It looks like you receive your inbound email from a service provider 
"arsmtp.com".  You might want to find out from them how to "whitelist" 
the emails from "oppedahl-lists.com".

On 9/6/2025 6:56 AM, Randall Svihla wrote:
>
> Hi, Carl
>
> Yes, I am subscribed to Patent Center, but it seems that all of the 
> emails about this topic went to my Junk Email folder.I have 67 
> messages from the listserv in my Junk Email folder since 08/20/2025.No 
> other email went there.
>
> I saw it was posted on 09/02 and I was surprised that no one had 
> mentioned it.
>
> Randall S. Svihla
>
> *From:*Carl Oppedahl <carl at oppedahl.com>
> *Sent:* Saturday, September 6, 2025 4:17 AM
> *To:* For patent practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek 
> legal advice. <patentpractice at oppedahl-lists.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [Patentpractice] Guest and unregistered users will no 
> longer be able to access Patent Center effective 09/11/2025
>
> 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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