[Pct] ePCT change of applicant

[David Boundy]

My client just bought some patent applications from a seller, including
some PCT's.  I have and Assignment and a Power.

How do I change "applicant" and Power of Attorney in ePCT?   I got to epCT
> Actions > Rule 92bis change request   I see how to do two things, neither
of which really fits, and it's odd for ePCT to not have an obviously-right
thing to do --
     -- select the current "applicant" and use the pencil to "change
applicant" -- but that is only for changes of *name* to the same applicant
(heir, name change, merger, etc.)  I want a *different* applicant
     -- "edit parties" to add a new applicant.  I can fill that out, but
there's no way to upload an Assignment

If I do Upload documents > IB > Assignment, then I'm locked out the 92bis
change, can't do it in the same transaction.

The thing I'm looking for probably does a Change of Applicant, and
*simultaneously
*asks for upload of an assignment *and simultaneously *a Power of Attorney,
I would think.  For this kind of change of Applicant, it would ask for
upload of an Assignment as a supporting document *simultaneously*.   I
can't find any of these that guarantees doing everything all at once.  I
rememebr that it used to be that if you did part of a Rule 92bis change,
you'd get locked out for 24 hours, so I didn't want to do that, and I tried
to avoid it until I was forced into that corner.

I stitched something together that gives me heartburn, and will no doubt
create heartburn for our friends in Geneva.  And now, to my surprise, I am
not locked out.  Maybe that's the fundamental change.

Mike or Anne, for this kind of thing, "Change Applicant" and upload
Assignment and Change Agent and Upload Power of Attorney are all part and
parcel of the same transaction.   It's not at all clear how to do that
without the 24-hour lockout.

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