USPTO Systems Status and Availability

Friday Jan 30, 2015

All Payment Processing and System Maintenance

All Payment Processing Maintenance

USPTO will perform maintenance affecting several systems beginning at 12:01 a.m. and ending at 5:01 a.m., Saturday, January 31 EST.

All payment processing through USPTO systems will be unavailable during the maintenance period.

The following systems will also be unavailable during the maintenance period:

  • Electronic Desktop Application Navigator (eDAN)
  • Electronic Filing System - Web (EFSWeb)
  • Electronic Patent Assignment System (EPAS)
  • Electronic System for Trademarks Trials Appeals (ESTTA)
  • Electronic Trademark Assignment System (ETAS)
  • Office Action Correspondence Subsystem (OACS)
  • Order Entry Management System (OEMS)
  • Patent Application Locating and Monitoring Pre-Examination System (PALM Pre-Exam)
  • Patent Application Location and Monitoring System Examination and Post-Examination (PALM ExPo)
  • Patent Application Location and Monitoring (PALM PCT OPS)
  • Trademark Electronic Application Submission (TEAS)
  • Trademark Electronic Application Submission International (TEASi)
  • Order Entry Management System (OEMS)
  • Office of Finance shopping site
  • Patent and Trademark Assignment System (PTAS)
  • Patent Application Information Retrieval (PAIR)
  • Patent Review Process System (PRPS)
  • Revenue Accounting and Management System (RAM)
  • Universal Public Workstation (UPWS)
  • USPTO Financial Profile application

For Trademark Customers:

If your deadline is today and the document requiring a fee payment cannot be filed electronically, you must use an alternative method of filing. Please visit the TEAS Outage page for information concerning Trademark alternative filing methods.

If you have any questions, contact the TEAS Team by email at TEAS@uspto.gov.

System Maintenance

USPTO will perform system maintenance beginning at 10:01 p.m., Saturday, January 31 and ending at 5 a.m., Monday, February 2 EST.

The applications listed below will experience brief, intermittent service interruptions during the maintenance period:

  • Application Images on the Web (AIW)
  • Adjudicated Case Tracking System (ACTS)
  • Electronic Filing System on the Web (EFS-Web)
  • Electronic Freedom of Information Act (EFOIA)
  • Electronic Patent Assignment System (ePAS)
  • Electronic Trademark Assignment System (eTAS)
  • Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA)
  • Patent Application Information Retrieval (Public PAIR)
  • Patent Application Information Retrieval (Private PAIR)
  • Patents Images on the Web (PIW)
  • Patent Review Process System (PRPS)
  • Trademarks Electronic Official Gazette (TMeOG)
  • Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Inquiry System (TTABVUE)
  • Trademark Electronic Application Submission (TEAS)
  • Trademark Electronic Application Submission International (TEASi)
  • Trademark Status Document Retrieval (TSDR)
  • USPTO Corporate Web Site (Internet)