PAIR Announcements

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For questions/comments or further assistance on any announcement, please send an e-mail to ebc@uspto.gov or call the Patent Electronic Business Center at 1- 866-217-9197 (toll-free) or 571-272-4100 from 6 a.m. to 12 Midnight Eastern Time, Monday – Friday.

PAIR Availability: 23 hours x 7 days per week (unavailable 04:30 AM to 05:30 AM ET daily)

Advisory (08FEB2012) Due to system maintenance, the Image File Wrapper (IFW) tab will be unavailable in both Public and Private PAIR Saturday, February 11, 2012 starting at 12:01AM and ending at 4:00AM Eastern Time. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Advisory (02FEB2012) Due to system maintenance, the Image File Wrapper (IFW) tab will be unavailable in both Public and Private PAIR Saturday, February 4, 2012 starting at 12:00AM and ending at 3:00AM Eastern Time. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Advisory (18NOV2011)

EFS-Web and Private PAIR are now compatible with Java 6 Update 29

EFS-Web and Private PAIR users may now download Java 6 Update 29 (released on 10/18/11). Please contact your IT department or follow the instructions provided at http://java.com/en/download/ to install the Java update.

Old bookmarks to EFS-Web and Private PAIR may not work after the update. Please create new bookmarks or clear your browser cache.

The USPTO is still working with Entrust to test the Java 7 patch. We will post an advisory to the public via the EFS-Web and Private PAIR announcement pages once Java 7 is supported.

Contact the Patent EBC at 1-866-217-9197 (toll-free) or ebc@uspto.gov if you need further assistance.

Advisory (22SEP2011) Continuity Data in Public PAIR and Private PAIR

Due to system limitations, some domestic benefit data is omitted from the "Continuity Data" tab in PAIR for a U.S. application which is a national phase or continuation of a PCT international application which was not filed with the receiving office of the United States (RO/US). The current domestic benefit data for a particular U.S. application is indicated on the most recent filing receipt or bibliographic data sheet contained in the Image File Wrapper.

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