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(Updated to use a different inventor name.)
(This is trouble ticket number CP26.)
Patentcenter does a very poor job with diacritical marks. Alpha testers of Patentcenter have been reporting this problem for over a year now and it has not been fixed. Continue reading “Patentcenter mishandles diacritical marks”
Quite by accident today I stumbled upon the good news that USPTO fixed two bugs in Patentcenter, permitting us to clear two Patentcenter trouble tickets today. The cleared trouble tickets are:
The trouble ticket page has been updated accordingly. This leaves twenty-one outstanding trouble tickets.
Of course what we can hope for is that eventually the Patentcenter developers will establish an outbound communications channel with the beta testing community, and will let us know when they fix a bug or add a requested feature. Until then, it will be a matter of our stumbling upon the fact of a bug having been fixed or a desirable feature having been added.
Patentcenter incorrectly lists every user as “not enrolled”. Patentcenter incorrectly says that every user “cannot access customer number in Patent Center and PAIR.”
To see this, log in at Patentcenter, click on “Manage”, click on “Manage customer numbers”. Then click on any customer number in your list. You will see that every user is flagged as being “not enrolled”.
This is bug report CP33.
The “Update Application Address” function is an important part of Private PAIR. The corresponding function is missing from Patentcenter. This is feature request FR19.
Six months have now passed since I first reported this problem to the EBC. Still it has not been fixed. EPO is missing from the Web-based ADS function in Patentcenter!
EPO is in the web-based ADS function in EFS-Web. But it is missing in the corresponding function in Patentcenter. This is bug report CP9 and you can read about it here.
This would be so very easy to fix. It would be a matter of adding one line of text in a list item on a web page.
Without comment or explanation, the developers of Patentcenter have removed the Corrected ADS function from Patentcenter. In this April 30 blog article I reported that it was buggy. This became bug report CP4. Now it’s gone from Patentcenter.
When Patentcenter launched in alpha test in September of 2018, one of the first things that the alpha testers pointed out was that an important feature from EFS-Web was missing — the last 40 acknowledgment receipts. Continue reading “Imminent: last 40 ack receipts in Patentcenter”
US national phase entries in Patentcenter are assigned from a block of application numbers starting at 15/733,001. Our firm was the third ever to file a 371 case in Patentcenter, receiving application number 15/733,003.
By the end of 2019, there had been fifteen 371 cases filed. My firm had filed seven of those cases. Yes my firm had done about half of all of the US national-phase work in Patentcenter from the beginnings of alpha test until the end of 2019.
By now, with Patentcenter opening up for general use, there has been an uptick in national-phase filings in Patentcenter. Twenty of them have been filed just in the past eight days.
(This is Patentcenter trouble ticket number CP22.)
(This has still not been fixed as of June 10. I phoned the EBC to open another trouble ticket. The new ticket number is 1-696205867.)
I was quite surprised today to be reminded that a defect in Patentcenter that I had reported to the USPTO back in December of 2019 has still not been corrected. The defect is that it is impossible, in Patentcenter, to e-file any follow-on submission in any 35-series design patent application. You can see this in the screen shot at right. Continue reading “Patentcenter is broken for Hague cases”
(Note: This is Feature Request FR9.)
(Update: I watered down the “ask” as you can see at the end of the blog post.)
Everybody in every intellectual property office provides permalinks. Everybody except the PAIR developers at USPTO, that is. This is USPTO’s chance to be in harmony with everybody else and provide permalinks in Patentcenter, as I will explain. Continue reading “Patentcenter feature request: permalinks”