Credit Card Processing Unavailability and EPAS/ETAS Maintenance
EPAS/ETAS Maintenance
USPTO will perform maintenance on the Electronic Patent Assignment System (EPAS) and the Electronic Trademark Assignment System (ETAS) beginning at midnight and ending at 2 a.m., Saturday, July 26 EST.
EPAS and ETAS will be unavailable during the maintenance.
EPAS and ETAS customers may save their submissions and submit the saved submissions once the maintenance period is complete.
Credit Card Processing Unavailability
Pay.gov will perform maintenance affecting online credit/debit card payment processing beginning at 6 p.m. and ending at midnight, Saturday, July 26 EST.
All USPTO Online Business Systems accepting credit/debit card payments are affected.
Please submit payment using an alternative payment method, such as:
Patents
- by attaching a fee transmittal form (e.g., PTO/SB/17) with deposit account authorization in EFS-Web;
- by faxing in a credit card authorization form PTO-2038 to the USPTO Central Fax 571-273-8300;
- or by sending in a credit card authorization form PTO-2038 through Priority Mail Express (formerly Express Mail) from the United States Postal Services (USPS) in accordance with 37 CFR 1.10.
Facsimile submission of the basic national fee for national stage under 35 U.S.C. 371 is not accepted. Submissions that require successful online payment, such as ePetitions and Pre-grant publication submissions, are unavailable at this time.
If you have any questions, contact the Patent EBC by phone at 866-217-9197 or by email at ebc@uspto.gov
Trademarks
Customers with an established deposit account or EFT account are still able to pay the required fees via those accounts. In addition, forms that do not require a fee payment can still be filed.
If your deadline is within the maintenance period and the document requiring a fee payment cannot be filed electronically, you must use an alternative method of filing. Please visit the TEAS Outage page for information concerning Trademark alternative filing methods.
If you have any questions, contact the TEAS Team by email at TEAS@uspto.gov.
Posted at 01:38PM Jul 22, 2014 in Planned Events |