[Patentcenter] Is Patent Center down? (Wednesday, January 17, 2024 -- 11:55 AM ET)? Can we not pay fees?

[Randall Svihla]

Today we paid a fee by deposit account at 12:03 p.m., and at 2:23 p.m. it still wasn't listed in the fee payment history.  It showed up later.

Best regards,

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


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Keep in mind that you can look in Financial Manager and it will often confirm that the USPTO really did receive the money.

You can also look in the fees tab of Patent Center and often it will confirm that the USPTO really did receive the money.
On 1/17/2024 10:07 AM, Patent Lawyer via Patentcenter wrote:
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.



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Subject: RE: Is Patent Center down? (Wednesday, January 17, 2024 -- 11:55 AM ET)? Can we not pay fees?

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

https://www.uspto.gov/blog/ebiz/entry/current-events1020


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Subject: [Patentcenter] Is Patent Center down? (Wednesday, January 17, 2024 -- 11:55 AM ET)? Can we not pay fees?

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





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