The sponsorship tool allows practitioners to grant or remove sponsorship for support staff member(s) to work under their direction and control. In order to sponsor support staff, a practitioner must first migrate to a USPTO.gov account and the support staff must each have their own USPTO.gov account.
Practitioners are able to sponsor support staff, access "pending requests" for sponsorships to grant approval, remove sponsored support staff, and view active sponsorships. Support staff are able to sign in using USPTO.gov accounts, view active sponsorships, remove sponsorships from a sponsoring practitioner which they no longer wish to be sponsored by, "request sponsorships" for other support staff to be approved by a practitioner, and view requested sponsorships.