USPTO Systems Status and Availability

Tuesday Aug 13, 2013

PRPS, EFS-Web, and Systems Maintenance

PRPS Maintenance

USPTO will perform maintenance on the Patent Review Processing System (PRPS) beginning at 12 midnight and ending at 5 a.m. on Thursday, August 15.

PRPS will be unavailable during the maintenance period.

EFS-Web Maintenance

USPTO will perform system maintenance on EFS-Web and EFS-Web Contingency beginning at 1 a.m. and ending at 5 a.m. on Thursday, August 15.

Applicants should not access EFS-Web or EFS-Web Contingency during the maintenance period.

Systems Maintenance

USPTO will perform system maintenance beginning at 12:01 a.m. and ending at 2 a.m. on Friday, August 16.

The websites listed below will be unavailable during the maintenance period:

EFS-Web Maintenance

USPTO will perform an Electronic Filing System (EFSWeb) deployment beginning at 12:01 a.m. and ending at 6 a.m. on Saturday, August 17.

EFSWeb, EFSWeb Contingency, and Private PAIR will be unavailable during the deployment. Users should not access these three systems during the deployment period.