USPTO Systems Status and Availability

Wednesday Nov 17, 2021

Current Events

UPDATED: Delayed EFS-Web Acknowledgement Receipts and Fee Transmittals
On October 22 (2 p.m. -6 p.m. ET) and November 4 (12:01 a.m.-7:30 a.m. ET), EFS-Web experienced a technical issue and was unable to properly generate an Acknowledgement Receipt and Fee Transmittal for some submissions. If you calculated and paid fees, your payment was successfully recorded in our payment system; however, the fees selected were not recorded on the EFS-Web generated Fee Transmittal. You can verify successful fee payments in Financial Manager or via your credit card provider.
USPTO is working to provide Acknowledgement Receipts and Fee Transmittals. If your submission was affected, please check Private PAIR or Patent Center for confirmation of these documents after November 8 for October 22 submissions and after November 12 for November 4 submissions.