[Patentcenter] Patent Center Issue Fee Payment Bugs

[Randall Svihla]

Hi, Judith

Why were you paying the Issue Fee again?

Best regards,

Randall S. Svihla
NSIP Law
Washington, D.C.


From: Patentcenter <patentcenter-bounces at oppedahl-lists.com> On Behalf Of Judith S via Patentcenter
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 11:36 PM
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Cc: Judith S <judith.a.s at gmail.com>
Subject: [Patentcenter] Patent Center Issue Fee Payment Bugs

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:

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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.

[cid:image002.png at 01DA1861.33983B80]Two bonus bugs:

It took a few tries to log in.  I got this brand new error message.
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And when I tried to get into my Workbench, I got this exciting new message.

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

Judith



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