Month: December 2025

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Listservs seem to be back in service

Hello listserv colleagues!  I think the listservs are more or less back in service.  But for about 30% of our listserv members, the member’s email service provider (ESP) is blocking our postings as spam.  If you are in that 30%, I urge you to direct your ESP to stop the blocking.  This may include whitelisting the new IP address or speaking frankly with your ESP.

And if you posted anything to any of the listservs since about December 21, I am sorry to say you will probably need to repost it.

It took a lot of my professional time to deal with this.  And the hosting service will cost a bit more in perpetuity.  I will gladly receive donations to help support this, as detailed below.

Details follow.  Continue reading “Listservs seem to be back in service”

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Maybe you have not used this kind of two-factor authentication for Patent Center?

Trezor Safe 7Day-to-day users of Patent Center are accustomed to the USPTO’s requirement that you provide two-factor authentication (“2FA”) as part of the login process.  It turns out that you may be able to use your cryptocurrency hardware wallet as your 2FA at the USPTO. This blog article explains how to do it. Continue reading “Maybe you have not used this kind of two-factor authentication for Patent Center?”

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The listservs are broken

(Update on December 30, 2025.  The listservs seem to be back in service, see blog posting.)

(Update on December 29, 2025.  Today I have spent around eight hours arm-wrestling with Namecheap tech support people, working on the migration of the listservs from a “shared hosting” server to a “virtual private server”.  It has been exhausting.  I think there is a chance that progress has been made.  I will update this posting if I see more progress.)

The executive summary is:  the listservs are broken.  I am working on getting them back into service.  Continue reading “The listservs are broken”