[Patentcenter] fax receipt from Patent Office?

[Carl Oppedahl]

Keep in mind that if the documents that you faxed to the USPTO include a 
document that leads to the USPTO taking money from you, then you will 
benefit from the fact that they have internal standards that somebody at 
the USPTO acts on the money-grab as fast as is humanly possible.  If 
they did in fact receive the fax, then I absolutely predict that your 
credit card charge (if that is what it was) will get processed no later 
than one business day. In other words, no later than tomorrow.

At which point you could check the web site of your credit card company 
and see the charge.  And then you can be confident that the fax really 
did go through.

On 12/18/2023 3:36 PM, Sandra L Etherton via Patentcenter wrote:
>
> I had to file a petition to pay a late maintenance fee _by fax_ 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Does the Patent Office still send fax acknowledgements that a fax was 
> received? If so, how long does it take?
>
> Sandra
>
> *______________________*
>
> *Sandra L Etherton*
>
> Registered U.S. Patent Attorney
>
> *ETHERTON LAW GROUP, LLC***
>
> tel: (602) 681-3331 | fax:  (602) 681-3339
>
> email: sandra at ethertonlaw.com <mailto:sandra at ethertonlaw.com>
>
> www.ethertonlaw.com
>
>
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