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...which still requires you to mail floppy disks or CD-ROMs containing one Excel spreadsheet file in order to update your customer number. See http://www.reginf
by thinkcomp 12y ago
...which still requires you to mail floppy disks or CD-ROMs containing one Excel spreadsheet file in order to update your customer number. See http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewIC?ref_nbr=201209-0651-012&icID=186503 http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewIC?ref_nbr=201209-06....
...and has no static URLs for patent applications.
...and just gave a contract for $800K to a company with no experience, that lied about its incorporation date (it was in business for eight days), and that has produced no product for the USPTO thus far after months, causing at least two other bidders (myself included) to protest formally. See http://www.gao.gov/products/B-410658 http://www.gao.gov/products/B-410658.
The USPTO does a lot of things, and some of them well, but IT is not one of them.
- eob 12y agoInteresting.. so what's the backstory behind the company that got the contract? It may just be the PIs have a good track record..