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Public PAIR/Recaptcha?s unintended consequences?

By nipper

I frequently have problems getting the USPTO’s new password verification system to work.  In my experience, it is usually a FireFox issue….if I reboot FireFox, the system will accept my entries again.  I thought the problem was “just me.”  Apparently not. In the last week, I’ve seen a number of newsgroup posts and emails from readers where they too are having the same problem.  Most of them, to avoid the issue, have resorted to logging into Private PAIR for everything they used to do in Public PAIR. So, the “unintended consequences” question I ask is “if everyone starts doing the same thing (doing all of their work in Private PAIR), will the performance of Private PAIR take a hit)?” The comments are open...continue to full post

Full post as published by Invent Blog on February 07, 2008 (boomark / email).