Effective
March 15, any charge to a deposit account appearing on a paper
filed by mail, facsimile transmission, or a PDF document filed in EFS-Web,
TEAS, or other storefronts, must be signed by a person listed in the USPTO’s Financial
Manager system as having fee payer permissions.
A paper authorization signed by anyone other than
a deposit account fee
payer
in Financial Manager will not be accepted and the fee will not be considered
paid. For more information, see the Official
Gazette notice, which was published on February 14, 2017.
For
assistance with adding users to your deposit account or updating their
Financial Manager permissions, please send an email to FeesHelp@uspto.gov or call
800-786-9199 or 571-272-1000 (select option 3, then option 4).
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