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Standalone Sponsorship Tool Discontinued

As of September 15, 2021, the standalone Sponsorship Tool at https://patentcenter-sponsorships.uspto.gov/ will no longer be available.

Please use the Sponsorship feature in Patent Center to view and manage support staff sponsorships for EFS-Web, Private PAIR, and Patent Center. You may use your same uspto.gov account information to sign in to all filing systems. After signing in to Patent Center at https://patentcenter.uspto.gov/#!/, you can access the sponsorship tool under the Manage > Sponsor Users menu option.

If you have browser bookmarks or favorites to the standalone Sponsorship Tool, please update them to https://patentcenter.uspto.gov/#!/.

See the Patent Center Sponsorship Guide for more information.

For questions or assistance, please contact the Patent Electronic Business Center (EBC) at 866-217-9197 during their operating hours of 6 a.m. to midnight ET, Monday - Friday,  or email ebc@uspto.gov.

Enterprise SharePoint System (ESPS) Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance on the Enterprise SharePoint System (ESPS) beginning at 12:01 a.m., Saturday, October 9 and ending at 5 a.m., Saturday, October 9 ET.

During the maintenance period, users will not have access to ESPS.​

Last updated: Wednesday, Oct 6, 2021 at 4:49 AM ET
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