Filed a divisional application at the ILPTO. The ILPTO’s electronic filing system populated all the relevant fields with information from the parent case. As the application has more than 100 pages, I told it how many excess pages there were (250) and it calculated the total fees due – NIS 2344 filing fee plus NIS 293 for each group of 50 pages over 100, total NIS 3223. Which I paid.
A few minutes later, I got the filing receipt. That’s good – USPTO doesn’t do things that quickly.
But at the same time I got a letter saying we still owed NIS 2344 in excess page fees, and that we need to file a “response to defects” on the web site. It included a hyperlink.
So I wrote a response saying, No we don’t, your system calculated exactly what we owed and we paid it, see receipt no. XXX. (Normally I’d pick up the phone to deal with this, but the ILPTO doesn’t take phone calls after 13:30.)
I went to file the letter and found that the system doesn’t have an entry for “response to defects”, and that the hyperlink provided yields a 404 error.
There was, however, an entry for “payment of excess page fees”, which I chose…and it doesn’t let you file a response unless you also pay the fee that the ILPTO says you owe.
So I filed it under “response to defects in national phase entry”, since even though this isn’t national phase entry but a divisional of one, Michael Bart and his team of PCT people at the ILPTO are competent, and will call me about this tomorrow or Sunday and we’ll get it straightened out.
What I want to know is, why did the system issue this letter in the first place?
Bonus: the filing receipt includes the notation in the photo below. The Hebrew is correct, but the English translation is not. It should read “Division from application no.:”, not “Request of division from”.