Fee Processing System Maintenance Extended
Fee Processing System Maintenance Extended
The nightly Fee Processing system maintenance originally scheduled to end on Sunday, May 8 has now been extended to end on Saturday, June 18. During the maintenance, the Fee Processing system will be unavailable nightly from a.m. to 1:30 a.m. ET.
The maintenance will cause an outage to Financial Manager and Patent Maintenance Fee Storefront. The maintenance will also cause interruption to payment processing for users of the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS), Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASi), Electronic Trademark Assignment Search (ETAS) the Order Entry Management System (OEMS), the Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA), and the Patent Electronic Filing System (EFS-Web).
Users attempting to pay for a trademark order via TEAS or TEASi should save their work and not try to pay during the maintenance timeframe.
Users processing an order via OEMS should not try to pay for an order during the maintenance timeframe.
Users processing a trademark assignment action via ETAS should not try to pay for an order during the maintenance timeframe.
Users processing a TTAB submission online via ETAS should not try to pay during the maintenance timeframe.
EFS_Web users may pay using the "Current USPTO Payment System" during the maintenance timeframe. See the EFS-Web Fee Payment Quick Start Guide (pdf) for more information.
Posted at 08:49AM Jun 14, 2016 in Current Status |