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ericng159
Last seen: 01/28/2022 - 11:39
Joined: 01/24/2022 - 12:35
Empty response when querying by assignee_id

Hello, querying by assignee_id doesn't seem to work for me anymore. Here is a pastebin of the request: https://pastebin.com/h4vX7EqP
I assumed the service was down but querying by assignee_organization does work fine. I'm wondering if this is caused by the switch to the newer version of the API or is their something wrong with the request I'm sending? Thanks in advance!
 

Tue, 01/25/2022 - 11:18
PVTeam
Role: moderator
Last seen: 11/29/2024 - 15:02
Joined: 10/17/2017 - 10:47
Thank you for letting our…

Thank you for letting our team know about this error in querying. The source of the problem was identified and resolved by our developer yesterday afternoon and the tool should now be accessible once again. 

Thank you,

PVTeam

Wed, 01/26/2022 - 14:45
ericng159
Last seen: 01/28/2022 - 11:39
Joined: 01/24/2022 - 12:35
Thanks for getting back to…

Thanks for getting back to me! One thing I'd also like to know if there was any chance that an assignee_id can change?
For example: previously if we wanted to find patents for google we'd look for assignee_id: 4b661a6e-291b-42ab-a44e-7c1156e8c8e4. But as of today what I previously thought was an outage, might have been the assignee_id's we were using prior are no longer linked to a company we were looking for. Currently we're using assignee_id: db09fa49-2d9d-4d49-bf93-5ae6cce77bd1 to look for google's patents and this seems to work. Implying I'm not being paranoid and the ID's did change, do you have any suggestions for a query that will return similar results? We did use assignee_organization name prior but found it difficult with companies that have multiple names Ex: "The Walt Disney Company", "Disney Enterprises, Inc.", etc. Assignee_key_id was also a consideration to use, but according to the docs, this feature might be deprecated.