Patent Center Fully Replaces USPTO Legacy Systems for Filing and Managing Patent Applications Online

Excerpt:  “As recently announced as part of our modernization efforts to provide our customers with more efficient and effective IT tools, today we are officially retiring the decades-old EFS-Web and Private Patent Application Information Retrieval (Private PAIR). The Patent Center system will fully replace these legacy tools, providing a one-stop shop for our patents customers for filing and managing their applications, offering a next-generation user interface with better overall system performance and security. ‘This is an important milestone in our efforts to offer customers a better service through enhanced technology,’ said Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Kathi Vidal. ‘We appreciate that change can be difficult for those accustomed to and with internal systems built around Private PAIR, but we are ready to make this leap with our customers into a new era of technology that will lead to better processing and more efficiencies.'”