Fee Processing Outage, Trademark Systems Maintenance for February 1 Rescheduled, and Systems Maintenance
Fee Processing Outage
The USPTO will perform system maintenance beginning at 12:01 a.m., Sunday, February 12 and ending at 2:00 a.m., Sunday, February 12 2017 ET. The maintenance will cause an outage to Financial Manager and payment processing for all USPTO storefronts. Users of the following systems should not attempt to make a payment during the maintenance period:
- Electronic Filing System (EFS-Web)
- Patent Maintenance Fee Storefront
- Patent Trial and Appeal Board End to End (PTAB E2E)
- Order Entry Management System (OEMS)
- Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
- Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASi)
- Electronic Trademark Assignment Search (ETAS)
- Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA)
For Patent Customers:
During the maintenance period, EFS-Web applicants may file new patent applications and follow-on submissions without fees. However, please do not file ePetitions, eTerminal Disclaimers, Web 85b, or any submissions which require fee payment at time of submission, since these will fail without successful payment.
See additional information about submitting payments using an alternative payment method.
If you have questions, please contact the EBC (Patent Electronic Business Center) at 1-866-217-9197, Monday through Friday from 6AM - Midnight ET, or email ebc@uspto.gov.
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 Outage Page for information concerning Trademark alternative filing methods. Account holders will still be able to pay the required fees via those accounts. In addition, forms that do not require a fee payment can still be filed. If you have any questions, contact the TEAS Team by email at TEAS@uspto.gov .
For TTAB Customers:
If your deadline is today and a document requiring a fee payment cannot be filed electronically prior to midnight, you must submit your filing by mail. This outage does not impact ESTTA forms that do not require a filing fee. Oppositions or extensions of time to oppose § 66(a) applications must be filed electronically.
Trademark Systems Maintenance for February 1 Rescheduled
The Trademark Next Generation (TMNG) systems maintenance originally scheduled to begin at 12:01 a.m., Wednesday, February 1 will now begin at 12:01 a.m., Friday, February 17 and end at 6 a.m., Friday, February 17 ET.
Trademarks Search and Document Retrieval (TSDR) will be impacted during the maintenance period.
The following systems will remain available during the maintenance, but links to and images derived from TSDR will be unavailable, including mark images:
- Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS) except for initial application forms
- Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASi)
- Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS)
Systems Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance on the following systems beginning at 12:01 a.m., Monday, February 6 and ending at 5:00 a.m., Monday, February 6 ET.
During the maintenance period the following systems will be unavailable:
- Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS) (Domestic)
- Trademark Electronic Application System (TEASi) (International)
- Trademarks Electronic Official Gazette (TMOG)
- Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Viewing on the Web (TTABVUE)
- Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TSDR)
Posted at 11:33AM Feb 06, 2017 in Planned Events |