Outage outrage: reactions to the USPTO’s systems crash

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Outage outrage: reactions to the USPTO’s systems crash

August 24 2018
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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

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