Hello readers! The server that hosts this blog got hacked on October 18, during the time that I was in Washington DC for the face-to-face meeting (blog article) with USPTO people on the topic of Patent Center. When I returned to home after these travels, I set to work dealing with the hack. The recovery plan that I eventually arrived at was to set up a new hosting server with the plan of shutting down the old hosting server. It was quite a lot of work to migrate all of the systems that had been on the old server, over to the new server, keeping in mind that it was very important to be extremely careful to ensure that the only stuff to be be migrated from the old server was content and not any executable code. It meant that every instance of executable code needed to be rebuilt from scratch, from trusted sources. And a number of new and additional protective measures needed to be in place on the new server. And everything needed to be tested.
The way that this affects you, dear reader, is that if you are one of the thousands of subscribers to this blog, you did not get notified by email of any new blog posts after October 18. It was just today that I successfully migrated the subscriber list over from the old (compromised) server to the new server. So it is only today that you, as a subscriber, will resume being notified by email of new blog posts.
And this means that you did not get notified of the following nine blog posts that happened after October 18. So here is a blog post to identify the blog posts that you did not get notified about.
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- Countdown to the shutdown of PAIR and EFS-Web (October 26)
- Daylight saving time and WIPO (October 29)
- What happens when USPTO fails to answer letters or respond to emails or return telephone calls about Patent Center (October 31)
- AIPLA again asks USPTO to postpone the shutdown of PAIR and EFS-Web (October 31)
- The in-person meeting at the USPTO on October 18 about Patent Center (October 31)
- Detailed review of USPTO’s 18-slide deck about Patent Center (October 31)
- AIPLA and 123 Patent Practitioners each file a comment to OMB about USPTO’s DOCX initiative (October 31)
- Argentina intellectual property office becomes even more trendy, modern and up-to-date (November 1)
- NAPP writes to the USPTO about Patent Center not being ready (November 2)
Thank you for all of your effort.
Thank you for what sounds like an awful lot of work at your end – looking at your list of posts though it seems as though I received all of them.
Thank you very much for all your efforts and hard work. The lack of understanding from the PTO is truly disheartening.
The link to the Countdown Clock post is broken.
Thank you for posting! Thanks to you I have corrected the link.
Thank you. And to think that you as an individual put more care and effort into the transition to the new server than the USPTO did in the transition to Patent Center …