[Patentcenter] Follow up to last week's USPTO system crash

[Dan Feigelson]

Last week, during the USPTO intermittent system crash, I needed to file a
response to a notice of missing parts in a 371 application to reduce the
number of claims and eliminate multiple dependent claims.  I was able to
file the response on Tuesday, which was timely. But I also needed to pay a
fee for late submission of the inventor declarations, and because of the
PTO's IT issues, I was only able to pay that on Wednesday (faxing in the
credit card payment form on Tuesday was not an option). Which left me
wondering, is the PTO going to make me pay an extension fee now?  I decided
to wait and see what happens, and if I don't get a filing receipt by the
one-month extension deadline, pay the extension fee.

This morning I got my answer: a revised filing receipt, and change in the
status of the application to "docketed - ready for examination", as well a
notation in the transaction history "application is now complete".

Not sure if this is someone's oversight, or if the PTO is acknowledging its
screw-up. If the latter, it would have been nice if the PTO posted a notice
to all of us who had payment problems that the payment deadline was
extended for us.

Dan

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