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

[Carl Oppedahl]

Thank you for posting.  This is very interesting to wonder about.

On 1/25/2024 1:01 AM, Dan Feigelson via Patentpractice wrote:
> 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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