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Beginning Oct. 17, EFS-Web customers who use a deposit account or EFT for paying fees must
use Financial Manager to store the payment method and to manage user
access to the payment method.
Deposit accounts and EFTs that are not
stored in Financial Manager as of Oct. 17 will no longer be viable payment
options for customers. In addition, customers must have established a uspto.gov
account and be set-up with the Fee Payer permission in order to use the
payment method.
Starting Oct. 17, the USPTO will process all EFS-Web payments via the new USPTO payment
page only. All deposit accounts and EFTs must be stored in Financial
Manager and customers must have Fee Payer permission in order to
make a payment.
Customers will see
a phased approach to this change beginning Monday, September 19, when deposit
account customers who are not assigned the Fee Payer permission on the deposit
account being used for payment will no longer see their name on the list of
authorized users. Customers impacted by this change should contact their
deposit account Administrator to be added as a Fee Payer before Oct. 17, when the ability to pay with old credentials (i.e. deposit account
number and access code) will be completely removed as an option in EFS-Web.
EFT users must
also store their EFT in Financial Manager and/or be assigned the Fee Payer
permission on that EFT before Oct. 17, to avoid losing access to use
the EFT as a payment method.
Get Familiar
with the New Payment Page
Today, you can select the option to pay with "New USPTO
Payment System." Additional information is available in the Introduction to the New USPTO Payment Page.
More information
about Financial Manager can be found by visiting www.uspto.gov/financialmanager.
For additional assistance, please send an email to feeshelp@uspto.gov
or call 1-800-786-9199 and select option 3, then option 4.
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