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

[Randall Svihla]

Hi, Carl

Thanks.  I use Outlook 365.  Don't know about the other stuff you mentioned.  I'll ask our IT guy.

Randall S. Svihla
NSIP Law
Washington, D.C.


From: Carl Oppedahl <carl at oppedahl.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 6, 2025 10:56 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


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><mailto: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><mailto: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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