Delayed EFS-Web Acknowledgement Receipts and Fee Transmittals
On October 22 (2pm-6pm 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 after November 8 for confirmation of these documents.
EFS-Web IFW Availability Delays
Documents submitted via EFS-Web are experiencing longer than expected delays in becoming available in Private PAIR's IFW tab. USPTO is aware of this issue and is working diligently to resolve it.
Last updated: Thursday, Oct 28, 2021 at 6:55 AM ET
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