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Patent assigned creating conflict with Human Interfacing Device heterogeneous Access System combined with Intelligent Information Autonomics verified Omni-all infra systems tailored, parental guardianship and rights to ownership are eminent claimed by I, Christopher M. Spradling. Major maliciousness with non compliance of open source attachments and properties set forth with non dispensary agreements and procurements... more »

I have noticed that often the only acknowledgement by the USPTO that a pre-exam formalities response is satisfactory is a new filing receipt. I think it would be helpful if the USPTO would issue a response stating clearly that the particular formality has been satisfied.

For a long time, EFS eFiling receipts left the "Deposit Account" and "Authorized User" fields blank, even when fees were paid by Deposit Account. This was fixed at some point in the last few years, but seems to have broken again. Please fix this.

When submitting an updated Application Data Sheet to update the applicant using EProcessing, the Power of Attorney document is not available as an EProcessing selectable document. If I want to submit a Power of Attorney executed by the new applicant, I must do so as a separate EFS submission.

Users of the new Certified Copy Center ("Center") must sign in at the Center's page rather than access through their MyUSPTO page. Although already signed in through MyUSPTO, users will need to sign in again when accessing the Center's page.

A link to the Center should be available under both the Patents and Trademarks drop-down menus.

Kudos for converting the system for ordering certified copies. There is a major flaw in the system when you require users to log in using their USPTO.gov account. The flaw is that the system requires one or more entitlement documents before a user can proceed. This is a flaw because practitioners associated with customer numbers have access to unpublished applications, and the staff the sponsor do as well. Why require... more »

The WebADS form currently does NOT fill in the date field in the signature block, which is a huge problem: if an ADS is not properly signed, which signature includes the date, it is treated as a transmittal letter and not a proper ADS. Critically, this means that any priority claims are not (or may not be) considered. Applicants should NOT be penalized for using the PTO's own systems, especially when much of the appeal... more »

Removing sponsored staff when they leave a firm is an urgent task and cannot always wait for practitioners to have time to complete the process. Alleviate this burden by including in the Sponsorship Tool a feature to allow for assigning different levels of security like in Financial Manager. A practitioner would designate one or more sponsored staff as administrators to manage sponsorship changes from the staff's own... more »

In addition to the list of sponsored personnel is not in alphabetical order by default, users must scroll to see the available options for viewing more than 10 sponsored personnel per page. Options to show up to # are not visible when a user clicks on the "10 per page" link. Instead, users have to scroll to see the options for 10 items, 25 items, 50 items, and 100 items. In addition to automatically scrolling the page... more »

Add a feature to the Sponsorship Tool to allow a user to export the list of staff that have been sponsored by the practitioner. When a large number of practitioners sponsor the same staff, having a list to confirm is greatly beneficial to ensuring that staff no longer associated with the practitioner no longer have access under that practitioner.

Currently when asked to set a new USPTO.gov password, users are stuck in limbo and have to close out the window indicating a successful password change. It would be most efficient to have the system continue with the login you requested rather than getting stuck.

This happens consistently with the sponsorship tool and occasionally with MyUSPTO.

Practitioners are often tasked with reviewing maintenance fee history. The data returned by the Office when looking up multiple records (max of 10 currently) is a great resource since it can be exported to Excel. Being able to upload data to make payments is helpful as well, however, it would be optimal to also be able to upload bulk data for the purpose of verifying past and future maintenance fee information. Helpful... more »

Although it is generally accepted that if you are filing a response to a Notice to File Missing Parts or Notice to File Corrected Application Papers via EFS that you do not need to submit a return copy, the Notice actually contains conflicting instructions (see attached screenshot). The standard language of the Notices should be updated to definitively state that if you are filing a response via EFS that no return copy... more »

This is related to "Recognize POA in Issued Patent to Allow for Withdrawal." A practitioner will periodically need to update the Fee Address where the practitioner does not have Power of Attorney (POA). If a practitioner has access to the record via the Correspondence Address, the Office should allow such practitioner to update the Fee Address. Please correct me if I am wrong ... It does not appear that POA is required... more »

When logged into Private PAIR or EFS Web, you get an error message when expanding the main window that makes people think something isn't working. The message should not appear as there doesn't seem to be anything malfunctioning. Can someone address this please?