[Patentcenter] Outgoing correspondence

[Dan Feigelson]

I took Irving Kayton's course to prepare for the USPTO exam. He said that
if we were given a multiple choice question, and two of the answers were
identical except that one included "pay a fee" and one didn't, the one with
"pay the fee" was always the correct answer.

On Sun, Oct 6, 2024 at 4:29 PM Carl Oppedahl via Patentcenter <
patentcenter at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:

> Yes I had a situation like this a couple of days ago.  I was trying to
> file a response to an Office Action, with government fee.
>
> I would successfully log in at Patent Center.  So far, so good. Then I
> would click around to upload the response to the Office Action.  This would
> sort of work except sometimes the screen would jump around (with no hands
> anywhere near the keyboard or the touch pad) and would end up at a main
> login page for Patent Center.
>
> I would click around to look at the auto-saved submissions, and there was
> the response that I had uploaded.  Okay, click on that saved submission.
> Then I would click around very quickly trying to click "submit" before the
> next time that Patent Center went nuts.  Eventually after several cycles of
> this, I managed to click "submit" and I managed to e-file the response.
>
> But of course what remained was to pay the government fee.  Several cycles
> came and went during which I tried to get to the screen for paying the
> government fee.  No good.
>
> I finally gave up and prepared a form 2038 and faxed it in, to pay the
> government fee.  This was all on September 2.
>
> If there is anything the USPTO is good at, it is collecting fees.  That
> fax got acted upon within one business day (September 3), unlike some
> Powers of Attorney that I faxed in a week ago, that have not yet been acted
> upon.
>
> So yes I did eventually get my response filed despite the flakiness of
> Patent Center that day.
>
>

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