USPTO Systems Status and Availability

Saturday Apr 13, 2013

PRPS Upgrade and PATFT & APPFT Maintenance Cancellation

PRPS Upgrade

USPTO will be upgrading Patent Review Processing System (PRPS) to version 1.4 starting at midnight and ending at 10 a.m., Saturday, April 13.

PRPS will not be available during the upgrade period.

PATFT and APPFT Maintenance Cancelled

The maintenance USPTO had originally scheduled below, has been cancelled.

USPTO will be performing maintenance on Patent Full-Text on the Web (PatFT) and Application Full Text (AppFT) starting at 10 p.m. on Sunday, April 14 and ending at 5 a.m. on Monday, April 15.

External users will not be able to access these systems during the maintenance.