USPTO Systems Status and Availability

Wednesday Nov 28, 2012

FIDL/FISC Maintenance and Application Maintenance

FIDL/FISC Maintenance

The maintenance originally scheduled for Foreign Image Data Load (FIDL) and Foreign Image Search Capability (FISC) beginning 10 p.m. Friday, November 30 and ending 6 a.m. Saturday, November 1 has been postponed.

Application Maintenance

USPTO will be performing applications maintenance starting at 1 a.m. and ending at 8 a.m., Sunday December 2. Many USPTO applications will be unavailable, including EFS-Web, EFS-Web Contingency, Private PAIR,  Public PAIR, PRPS and TEAS.

In addition to the applications listed above, the external applications listed on the Online Business Systems page are also affected.