[Patentpractice] USPTO blinks on September 27 shutdown (was USPTO enhances assignment records search process)

Sat Sep 27 08:50:25 UTC 2025

Well, the USPTO seems to have blinked.  The upheaval scheduled for 
September 27 has apparently been postponed until October 20. See blog 
article 
<https://blog.oppedahl.com/uspto-blinks-on-shutdown-of-familiar-assignment-searches/>.

On 8/27/2025 3:13 PM, Carl Oppedahl via Patentpractice wrote:
>
> I think there is a typo in the headline and opening sentences.  What 
> they meant to write is:
>
>     *Things will be miserable on September 27*
>
>     All of the existing ways of searching for assignments will get
>     shut down on September 27.  A successor system that has never been
>     beta-tested will be turn on on September 27.  It won't work right.
>
>     The new system will be harder to use and will require that you log
>     in and use two-factor authentication, even when searching for
>     information that is a matter of public record.
>
>     For a user who is trying to look up assignment information for a
>     PCT application, it will fail.
>
>     For a user who is trying to look up assignment information for a
>     Hague application, it will fail.
>
>     The new system will fail to correctly match up a recordation
>     against a PCT number with the corresponding US national-phase
>     application number.
>
>     The new system will fail to correctly match up a recordation
>     against a US national-phase application number with the
>     corresponding PCT number.
>
>     The new system will fail to correctly match up a recordation
>     against a  Hague number with the corresponding US designation
>     (35-series) application number.
>
>     The new system will fail to correctly match up a recordation
>     against a US designation (35-series) application number with the
>     corresponding Hague number.
>
>     For a user who is trying to look up assignment information for an
>     application that has not been published it will fail.
>
>     Within a week or two, it will be discovered that the new system
>     has bugs that reveal applicant information that is not supposed to
>     be revealed, and parts of the new system will have to be shut down
>     abruptly.
>
>     Weeks will pass before most of the bugs and defects in the
>     successor system are more or less corrected.  Even after half a
>     year some bugs and defects will not have been corrected.
>
> *
> *
>
> On 8/27/2025 12:41 PM, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office wrote:
>> USPTO enhances assignment records search process
>> Assignment Search will be live effective September 27, 2025
>>
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>>   News Brief
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>>     USPTO enhances assignment recordssearch 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.
>>
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>> will be centrally located in Assignment Center. The new Assignment 
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