USPTO Systems Status and Availability

Thursday Dec 13, 2012

Planned Events

Certificate Management

USPTO will be performing updates to computers supporting the external customer Cerfiticate Authority application starting at 6 p.m. and ending at 11:59 p.m. December 14. USPTO External Customers will not be able to access certificate management functions during this outage.

Access to PrivatePAIR and EFSWeb, using the USPTO-issued digital certificates, will not be affected.

Currently, valid certificates will continue to be accepted for authentication to those secured applications.