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    <p>Keep in mind that you can look in Financial Manager and it will
      often confirm that the USPTO really did receive the money.</p>
    <p>You can also look in the fees tab of Patent Center and often it
      will confirm that the USPTO really did receive the money.<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/17/2024 10:07 AM, Patent Lawyer
      via Patentcenter wrote:<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I got a
            message that it could not find the fees server.   I cannot
            tell if my fee transmittal was accepted and it is just the
            fee payment that failed (because the issue fee transmittal
            is not in the IFW).  I will try again, maybe this time with
            authorization to charge my deposit account.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From: </span></b><span
              style="color:black">"Andrea R. Jacobson"
              <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:arj@mcgarrybair.com"><arj@mcgarrybair.com></a><br>
              <b>Date: </b>Wednesday, January 17, 2024 at 12:04 PM<br>
              <b>To: </b>Patentcenter Patentcenter
              <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:patentcenter@oppedahl-lists.com"><patentcenter@oppedahl-lists.com></a><br>
              <b>Cc: </b>Patent Lawyer
              <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:patentlawyer995@gmail.com"><patentlawyer995@gmail.com></a><br>
              <b>Subject: </b>RE: Is Patent Center down? (Wednesday,
              January 17, 2024 -- 11:55 AM ET)? Can we not pay fees?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:#F8F8F8">It
              has been down all morning, but seems to be attempting to
              come back up. I just got logged in using Edge (which I
              have set to clear cookies every time it closes); no luck
              yet with Chrome</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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href="https://www.uspto.gov/blog/ebiz/entry/current-events1020"
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">From:</span></b><span
                  style="font-size:11.0pt"> Patentcenter
                  <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:patentcenter-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com"><patentcenter-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com></a>
                  <b>On Behalf Of </b>Patent Lawyer via Patentcenter<br>
                  <b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 17, 2024 11:58 AM<br>
                  <b>To:</b> Patentcenter Patentcenter
                  <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:patentcenter@oppedahl-lists.com"><patentcenter@oppedahl-lists.com></a><br>
                  <b>Cc:</b> Patent Lawyer
                  <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:patentlawyer995@gmail.com"><patentlawyer995@gmail.com></a><br>
                  <b>Subject:</b> [Patentcenter] Is Patent Center down?
                  (Wednesday, January 17, 2024 -- 11:55 AM ET)? Can we
                  not pay fees?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Is Patent
              Center down?  Can we not pay fees?  I just tried to pay an
              issue fee and got some crappy failure after hitting submit</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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