[Patentcenter] Patent Center Issue Fee Payment Bugs

[Judith S]

I paid some issue fees today. It was exciting, and much more time consuming
than it should have been.

I got to see the "change entity size" bug in action, where I had to restart
the Web-Issue Fee after changing the entity size in the PatentCenter-Status
Page, because it didn't work otherwise. (*CP138).*

It appears you cannot use Web-Issue Fee if you previously paid the issue
fee. If you click on the option to apply that fee, you cannot continue to
the next page. I tried this on multiple browsers.  I ended up filing a
paper issue fee payment.  It does helpfully say:

[image: Screenshot 2023-11-15 at 4.17.07 PM.png]
But you can't click continue.

If the system fills in the Assignee from the ADS (which usually doesn't
work for me, the Assignee type is indicated as "Organization" with a
warning to change to the type. If you do, the system does not save that
change.  So when you open the Web-85 form, it'll show "Organization." It
will not error as a result though, so you can submit it with the incorrect
entity identification. I don't know what happens if you do, because I
correct this by going back, deleting the auto-filled entity & re-entering
their data.

[image: Screenshot 2023-11-15 at 8.23.21 PM.png]Two bonus bugs:

It took a few tries to log in.  I got this brand new error message.
[image: Screenshot 2023-11-15 at 3.03.13 PM.png]

And when I tried to get into my Workbench, I got this exciting new message.

[image: Screenshot 2023-11-15 at 8.22.24 PM.png]

Today was a super fun day. I can't wait for tomorrow.

Judith
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