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Toteboards About Carl Oppedahl Sites that Cite our Site VOIP telephone test Scroll down to content Posts Posted on May 13, 2024 Assignment Center was broken for customers using IPv6, now fixed Here is a subtle mistake that the USPTO made recently. The USPTO made it so that if a USPTO customer were to try to use Assignment Center using an IPv4 address, Assignment Center would work. But if instead the USPTO customer were to try to use Assignment Center using an IPv6 address ( Wikipedia article ), Assignment Center would fail to load. I reported this on May 7, 2024 in a posting to the Patent Practice listserv . You can see the listserv posting here . Now on May 13, I see that the USPTO corrected its mistake. It is now possible to make use of Assignment Center even if you are using an IPv6 address. I think what almost certainly happened is, one of the USPTO lurkers on the Patent Practice listserv saw the May 7 posting about the defect, and forwarded the posting to one of the Assignment Center developers, and eventually they corrected the defect. Posted on May 13, 2024 May 13, 2024 USPTO fails to let me know that it fixed a defect that I reported in Assignment Center click to enlarge Three times in February of 2024, by three different communications channels to the USPTO, I reported a defect in Assignment Center. The defect, shown at right, was that Assignment Center refused to permit me to record an assignment against a PCT application number. Now, three months later, the USPTO did fix this defect. But the USPTO failed to let me know they fixed it. I had to stumble upon it by accident that the USPTO had fixed it. Continue reading USPTO fails to let me know that it fixed a defect that I reported in Assignment Center” Posted on May 11, 2024 Setting up a security camera system These days, most people who want to have security camera systems choose cloud-based systems. The cloud-based systems have recurring costs, and it is anyone’s guess how badly one’s privacy could be violated in the cloud. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were some way to set up a security camera system that is completely self-contained, that does not send video data to a cloud, and that has no recurring cost? The alert reader will have no difficulty guessing where this article is going. Of course there is a way to set up a security camera system that is completely self-contained, that does not send video data to a cloud, and that has no recurring cost. For convenient reference I will give a name to such a system: a good system.” I have set up a page describing how to set up a good” security camera system. Posted on May 10, 2024 Attend a 2½-day live in-person Patent Cooperation Treaty seminar in scenic Summit County, Colorado click to enlarge Attend a 2½-day live in-person Patent Cooperation Treaty seminar in scenic Summit County, Colorado, next to Lake Dillon and surrounded by snow-capped mountains. Maybe also attend an optional half-day program specifically directed to docketing of the PCT. Tuesday, June 25 to Thursday, June 27, 2024. Get $100 off the 2½-day class if you book by May 18 – coupon code Z4GJFQJA Get $40 off the half-day course if you book by May 18 – coupon code DXRLPGND Get $140 off both courses if you book by May 18 – coupon code EPXOGTH0 For more information, or to register, click here . Posted on May 4, 2024 May 4, 2024 USPTO shifts another burden to applicants – IDS citations click to enlarge Some practitioners have noticed that there has been a clerk in the Issue Branch who tirelessly marks up IDSs as shown at right. The clerk’s initials are TDR. The USPTO has now burden-shifted this markup task to applicants, and wrongly so. Continue reading USPTO shifts another burden to applicants – IDS citations” Posted on May 3, 2024 May 4, 2024 e-Trademarks listserv is broken (Update: Namecheap has restored the function of the e-Trademarks listserv. It took 56 hours and 24 emails back and forth, but yes the function of the listserv has been restored.) Hello folks. The e-Trademarks listserv has been broken for about 36 hours now. What triggered this was that on May 1, 2024 the listserv system did what it always does on the first day of every month — it sends out monthly membership reminders. In the case of the e-Trademarks listserv this was about 1227 email messages with nearly identical subject lines and very similar email body texts. Our hosting service provider (Namecheap) then compared this number (1227) with the stated limit (for our type of hosting) which is ten thousand email messages per hour, and somehow wrongly concluded that we sent so many emails that it supposedly violated the stated limit. And Namecheap imposed a shutdown on the e-Trademarks listserv. Yes, I know, if a person carries out complicated math, a person can eventually arrive at a conclusion that the number 1227 is actually smaller than 10000 and not larger than 10000. And I have tried to explain this to the legal and abuse” department at Namecheap and I have thus far apparently failed to make myself clear to them on this seemingly subtle point. This is not the first time that Namecheap has wrongly tagged our listserv traffic as supposedly being spam. Yes, what happens often is that hundreds or a thousand emails get sent at the same time, with identical subject lines. But that is exactly what a listserv is supposed to do! If the listserv were to fail to send hundreds or a thousand emails get sent at the same time, with identical subject lines, that would mean the listserv is failing at its stated function. I have gone through this bad movie with Namecheap several times, including the following: May 1, 2024, case number PRB-650-91372 February 21, 2024, case number JET-420-91825 November 6, 2023, case number LZW-313-84957 January 9, 2023, case number KHX-716-74404 In the previous three cases, what eventually happened was Namecheap realizing that they were wrong to shut down the listserv and then they corrected their mistake. Now we have this most recent case and again I guess it will be a matter of time before Namecheap corrects its mistake. Okay, I have vented. Thank you, readers, for listening. Some time, hopefully soon, the Namecheap people will follow along with my explanation that 1227 is smaller than 10000 instead of larger. And they will restore the e-trademarks listserv to service. Posted on April 29, 2024 April 29, 2024 USPTO flip-flops on whether a patent application title reveals technical data click to enlarge Can the title of a not-yet-published US patent application reveal technical data? Read on to see the USPTO talks out of two sides of its mouth, reaching both a yes” and a no” answer to this question. Continue reading USPTO flip-flops on whether a patent application title reveals technical data” Posted on April 11, 2024 April 11, 2024 A reminder of why I like VOIP.MS as our telephone service provider Our firm has been using VOIP.MS as our telephone service provider since 2017, with no regrets. Across those seven years we have saved at least twenty thousand dollars compared with what our telephone services would have cost from any other service provider. This blog article provides a reminder of one of the reasons that I like VOIP.MS, namely geographic server diversity. Continue reading A reminder of why I like VOIP.MS as our telephone service provider” Posted on April 10, 2024 The Trademark Office corrects its databases About thirteen hours ago I posted a blog article noting that the Trademark Office made lots of mistakes when it issued six thousand trademark registrations yesterday. In that blog article, I wrote: I imagine this blog article will eventually prompt the Trademark Office to correct its databases for the six thousand registrations that issued yesterday. I wonder how many days that will take. The blog article also got cited in the e-Trademarks listserv . We now have our answer. It took about thirteen hours. Just now, corrected Notices of Registration have arrived and they...