Outage outrage: reactions to the USPTO’s systems crash
24 August 2018
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Michael Loney, New York
After a week of the USPTO’s electronic patent filing systems being down, the office says “the director will prescribe a procedure that will allow you to seek a refund of the paper filing fee”. But some observers say this will be tricky
The USPTO’s systems for filing patents
electronically went down on August 15 and it took until August
23 for them to be back to fully functioning. The outage has
prompted much criticism from users.
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