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<p>Yes you did send it to the correct fax number.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.uspto.gov/patents/maintain/responding-office-actions">https://www.uspto.gov/patents/maintain/responding-office-actions</a> .</p>
<p>Yes the USPTO system has nearly always faxed back a receipt, just
as you described. <br>
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<p>I am guessing that what is going on here is, the people at the
USPTO who are so smart that they know how to design Patent Center
as a replacement for all functions of EFS-Web and PAIR (which it
fails to be), and who are so smart that they know how to migrate
from the old full-text search system to their new (unusable)
patent search system, and who are so smart that they know how to
design a successor to EPAS that will supposedly work as well as
EPAS (and I predict it will be a disaster, and they already pushed
off the cutover date once) ...</p>
<p>probably decided they were so smart that they know how to replace
the existing Central Fax system with some poorly design new
Central Fax system.</p>
<p>That's my guess.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/18/2023 3:36 PM, Sandra L
Etherton via Patentcenter wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I had to file a petition to pay a late
maintenance fee <u>by fax</u> today since a) Patent Center
didn’t have the right fees in “Calculate Fees” and b) couldn’t
file an ePetition because I wasn’t entered as POA in the file
and instead was submitting a new POA. I faxed to 571-273-8300
as suggested by EBC.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I got a fax receipt from my webfax company
that the fax went through successfully, but I haven’t received
a fax receipt from the Patent Office. In the old days the PTO
faxed-back a receipt almost immediately. It’s been several
hours now and no PTO receipt yet. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Does the Patent Office still send fax
acknowledgements that a fax was received? If so, how long does
it take?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sandra<o:p></o:p></p>
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