USPTO Systems Status and Availability

Friday Feb 28, 2014

FEMS and EPR Maintenance

FEMS Maintenance

USPTO will perform maintenance on Freedom of Information Act Electronic Management System (FEMS) beginning at 2 p.m. and ending at 8 p.m., Friday, February 28.

The website https://foia.uspto.gov/palMain.aspx will be unavailable during the maintenance period.

EPR Maintenance

USPTO will perform maintenance on e-Patent Reference (EPR) beginning at 10 p.m., Friday, February 28 and ending at midnight.

Access to the Patent Reference data via Private PAIR will be unavailable during the maintenance period.