Ant-Like Persistence

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:

• CP1 — Web-based Form 85B loses initial capitalization for assignee city name (see article)
• CP8 – Reel number displayed wrong (see article) 

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”

(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”