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U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Online Patent Center System

  

On July 29, 2022, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced the introduction of a new Patent Center system1) that completely replaces the existing system for electronic filing and management of patent applications.

 The USPTO has been using the Patent Center system for electronic application and management of patents since 2017. The improved patent center system has been introduced through user testing and iterative improvement over the past 5 years. The new patent center system integrated the Electronic Filing System (EFS-Web) and the entire Public Patent Application Information Retrieval (PAIR). The current system has been officially terminated on 31st of July.

 🔅What’s special about the new patent center system;

. Filing and application management are incorporated within a single user interface for enhanced user experience.

. Use existing USPTO.gov account and sponsorships that you currently use in EFS-Web and PAIR.

. Submission of the specification, claims, abstract and drawings in a single DOCX document without the need to manually separate sections.

. Drag and drop interface allows filers to upload multiple files at once.

∙ Separate submission and payment receipts clearly confirms status of submitted documents and successful payments.

∙ Training mode is an interactive simulation where you can safely practice filing DOCX and PDF documents.

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1) For more information about the Patent Center system, please refer to the following link: https://www.uspto.gov/patents/apply/patent-center?utm_campaign=subscriptioncenter&utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_name=&utm_source=govdelivery&utm_term=

 

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