Pay.gov and FEMS Maintenance
Pay.gov Maintenance
USPTO’s credit card processor, pay.gov, is performing maintenance beginning 1 a.m. and ending 3 a.m. Friday, February 28. Because of this maintenance, USPTO storefronts will be unable to process online credit card payments. Please submit payment using alternative payment methods, such as:
Patents
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- or by sending in a credit card authorization form PTO-2038 through Express Mail from the United States Postal Services (USPS) in accordance with 37 CFR 1.10.
Facsimile submission of the basic national fee for national stage under 35 U.S.C. 371 is not accepted. Submissions that require successful online payment, such as ePetitions and Pre-grant publication submissions, are unavailable at this time.
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Trademarks
Customers with an established deposit account or EFT account are still able to pay the required fees via those accounts. In addition, forms that do not require a fee payment can still be filed.
If your deadline is today and the document requiring a fee payment cannot be filed electronically, you must use an alternative method of filing. Please visit the TEAS Outage page for information concerning Trademark alternative filing methods.
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FEMS Maintenance
USPTO will perform maintenance on Freedom of Information Act Electronic Management System (FEMS) beginning at 2 p.m. and ending at 8 p.m., Friday, February 28.
The website https://foia.uspto.gov/palMain.aspx will be unavailable during the maintenance period.
Posted at 10:32AM Feb 27, 2014 in Planned Events |