[Pct] Can applicant name for US national-phase entry differ from applicant name for PCT application?

[Krista Jacobsen]

I am preparing the paperwork to enter the national phase in the U.S. from a
PCT application.

When the PCT application was filed, the name of the company was "Oldname."
The inventors executed an assignment to Oldname. After the PCT application
was filed, the company changed its name to "Newname." It's the same entity,
just with a different name.

As Oldname doesn't exist anymore, I want to name Newname as the
applicant in the ADS that will accompany the national-phase filing in the
U.S.

Will there be any USPTO snafus because the applicant of the PCT application
does not match the applicant named in the U.S. national-phase entry papers?
I couldn't find anything in the MPEP that addresses this situation, so I
wanted to check with the brain trust. I'm hoping someone has had this
situation before, or perhaps a situation in which the PCT application was
assigned to a different entity prior to national-phase entry, and you named
the new owner as the applicant.

It seems like this shouldn't be an issue, but the USPTO seems to have
endless ways to surprise me.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Krista

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Krista S. Jacobsen
Attorney and Counselor at Law
Jacobsen IP Law
krista at jacobseniplaw.com
T:  408.455.5539
www.jacobseniplaw.com
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