System status and availability

The USPTO will perform routine maintenance affecting multiple systems from 12-2 a.m. ET on Saturday, May 16.

During the maintenance period, user access to the following applications may be interrupted:

•  API Key Manager
• Certified Copy Center (CCC)
• Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)
• Fee Processing (Fees)
• MyUSPTO 
• Office of Enrollment and Discipline - Customer Interface (OEDCI)
• Patent Center 
• Patent Trial and Appeal Case Tracking System (PTACTS)
• Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS) 
• Assignment Center
• Trademark Electronic Application System International- (TEASi) 
• Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA)
• Trademark Center
• Sequence Listing Information Control (SLIC)
• Trademark Examination (TM-EXM)
• Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Center (TTAB-Center)
• Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW)

Patent Customers: During the maintenance period, impacted applicants may refer to our Filing Documents during an Outage page for other alternative filing methods.

PTAB/P-TACTS Customers: If your deadline is today for the petition filing and/or other associated documents to a pending America Invents Act (AIA) case and you cannot file electronically via Patent Trial and Appeal Case Tracking System (P-TACTS), you may use an alternate filing method. Please visit the P-TACTS FAQ page:  https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/p-tacts_faqs_20221007.pdf and see A2 for information concerning your America Invents Act (AIA) petition filing and/or document filing using P-TACTS alternative filing methods

Trademark Customers: Please try filing again after the maintenance ends. If you have any questions, contact the TEAS Team by email at TEAS@uspto.gov .

TTAB Customers: Please visit the TTAB Outage Page:  https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/ttab/filing-ttab-documents-during-outage   for information concerning Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) alternative filing methods. If you have any questions, contact the TTAB Assistance Center during normal business hours by telephone at 571-272-8500 or email TTABInfo@uspto.gov.
 

The USPTO will perform a routine maintenance on the Patent Center from midnight-9 a.m. ET on Saturday, May 16.

Please refer to our Filing Documents during an Outage page for other alternative filing methods.

The USPTO will perform routine maintenance on Trademark applications from 8-11 a.m. on Saturday, May 16. 

The following systems will be unavailable during the maintenance:

• Trademark Content Management System (TM-CMS)
• Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TM-TSDR)
• Trademark Center (TM-Center)
• Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
• Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASi)

The USPTO will perform routine scheduled maintenance from 9 a.m. ET until 9 p.m. ET on Saturday, May 16.

• Credit/Debit card fee payment methods cannot be accepted during the maintenance window.
• Parties must pay fees for petitions either before or after this scheduled maintenance time. Those with deadlines for petition filing or other associated documents to a pending AIA case, must use an alternate filing method.  

Questions? Contact PTAB 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET at 571-272-9797 weekdays or email Trials@uspto.gov.
 

The USPTO will perform a routine Block Storage Migration for the following databases from midnight-5:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday, May 20.

• Assignments Center
• Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA)
• Open Data Portal (ODP)
• Patent Center
• Patent Maintenance Fees Storefront
• Patent Trial and Appeal Case Tracking System (P-TACTS)

During this maintenance period, Patent Center will be unavailable. Please refer to our Filing Documents during an Outage page for other alternative filing methods.