System status and availability
Check this webpage for the latest information on the operating status of USPTO's systems and planned maintenance activities.
Current status of USPTO systems
There are no current events at this time.
Upcoming planned events
Vendor Portal Upgrade
The Momentum team will perform a routine scheduled upgrade on the financial system from midnight ET until 10 a.m. ET on Saturday, June 6.
During this maintenance period, Users will not be able to submit invoices or e-deliverables.
Fee Payment Processing Maintenance
The USPTO will perform routine maintenance on its financial systems from 12-8 a.m. ET on Saturday, June 6, during which deposit account payments will be unavailable. Credit/debit card and electronic funds transfer (EFT) payments will remain available.
During the maintenance period, users will be unable to process deposit account fee payments for the following storefronts:
- Assignment Center (IPAS)
- Certified Copy Center (CCC)
- Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA)
- Office of Enrollment and Discipline Customer Interface (OEDCI)
- Patent Center (PC)
- Patent Maintenance Fees Storefront (P-MFS)
- Patent Trial and Appeal Case Tracking System (P-TACTS)
- Trademark Center (TC)
- Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
- Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASI)
- Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Center (TTABC)
The following online financial services will be unavailable:
- Transaction statements and other Financial Manager reports
- Patent maintenance fee bulk payment submissions
- Requests to create a new USPTO deposit account
Multiple Systems Maintenance
The USPTO will perform routine maintenance affecting multiple systems from 12-5 a.m. ET on Saturday, June 6.
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.
Trademark Maintenance
The USPTO will perform routine maintenance on Trademark applications from 12-5:30 a.m. ET on Saturday, June 6.
The following systems will be unavailable during the maintenance:
- Abstraction Layer (TM-AL)
- Trademark Content Management System (TM-CMS)
- Trademark-Examination (TM-Exam)
- Trademark Official Gazette (TMOG)
- Trademark ID Manual (TM-IDM)
- XSearch (XS)
- TRAM Replacement Services (TM-TRS)
- Trademark Examination Admin (TM-EADM)
- Trademark Examination Petitions (TM-EPET)
- Trademark Examination Special Mark Search (TM-ESMS)
- Trademark Madrid System (MADRID)
- Trademark Reviewer (TM-Review)
- Electronic System for Trademarks Trials Appeals (ESTTA)
- Trademark Trial and Appeal Board VUE (TTABVUE)
- Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Reading Room (TTAB-RR)
- Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Center (TTAB Center)
- Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TM-TSDR)
- Trademark Common Data Services (TMCOM)
- Trademark Center (TM-Center)
- Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
- Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASi)
The following systems will be available during the maintenance, but links to TM-Review will not be available:
- First Action System for Trademarks 2 (FAST2)
- Madrid Certification and Review Program (MCRP)
- Trademark Cropped Image System (TCIM)
Users should save their work prior to logging out.
Electronic System for Trademarks Trials Appeals (ESTTA), Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Inquiry System (TTABVUE), and TTAB Center Maintenance
The USPTO will perform a routine maintenance from 12:01- 5 a.m. ET on Saturday, June 6.
During the maintenance period, ESTTA, TTABVUE, and TTAB Center will be unavailable.
Card Payment Maintenance
Due to third-party system maintenance activities, credit/debit card payments will not be accepted from 8-11 p.m. ET on Saturday, June 6.
During the maintenance period, the following USPTO storefronts will be unable to accept credit/debit card payments:
- Assignment Center (IPAS)
- Certified Copy Center (CCC)
- Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA)
- Office of Enrollment and Discipline Customer Interface (OEDCI)
- Patent Center (PC)
- Patent Maintenance Fees Storefront (P-MFS)
- Patent Trial and Appeal Case Tracking System (P-TACTS)
- Trademark Center (TC)
- Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
- Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASI)
- Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Center (TTABC)
Customers with an already established USPTO Deposit Account or Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) Account may still pay using one of these payment methods during the maintenance window.
If you are unable to wait until the maintenance activity has concluded to pay a fee, the following alternative options are available:
Patent/PTAB/P-TACTS Customers: For more information about submitting alternative methods of payments during system maintenance, please visit here.
Trademark Customers: Filing deadlines that fall on a Saturday extend the filing deadline to the next business day. 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: For more information about alternative filing and different fee payment methods, please visit here.
Multiple Systems Maintenance
The USPTO will perform routine maintenance affecting multiple systems from 12-5 a.m. ET on Sunday, June 7.
During the maintenance period, user access to the following applications may be interrupted:
- MyUSPTO
- Fee Processing
- Patent Center
- Patent Trial and Appeal Case Tracking System (PTACTS)
- Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)
- Sequence Listing Information Control (SLIC)
- Trademark Center
- Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
- Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASi)
- Trademark Search
- Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Center (TTAB Center)
- Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA)
- Assignment Center
- Certified Copy Center (CCC)
- Office of Enrollment and Discipline - Customer Interface (OEDCI)
- API Key Manager
- 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_20250428.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.