USPTO Systems Status and Availability

Thursday Apr 06, 2017

MyUSPTO Maintenance, MyUSPTO.gov and Fee Processing Maintenance, Trademark System Maintenance, Systems Maintenance, OEMS Maintenance 1 and 2, Private PAIR Maintenance, and PTAB E2E Maintenance

System Maintenance Impacting MyUSPTO

The OCIO will perform system maintenance impacting MyUSPTO beginning at midnight, Friday, April 7 and ending at 5 a.m., Friday, April 7 ET.

During the maintenance period, MyUSPTO will be unavailable.

MyUSPTO.gov and Fee Processing Maintenance

The USPTO will perform system maintenance beginning at 12:01 a.m., Saturday, April 8 and ending at 5:30 a.m. ET.

The my.uspto.gov website will be unavailable during the maintenance period.

The maintenance will cause an outage to Financial Manager, an outage to Patent Maintenance Fee Storefront, and interruption to payment processing for 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
  • Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
  • Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASi)
  • Electronic Trademark Assignment Search (ETAS)
  • Order Entry Management System (OEMS)
  • Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA)
  • Patent Trial and Appeal Board End to End (PTAB E2E)

For Patent Customers

For more information about filing documents during an outage, please visit https://www.uspto.gov/patents-application-process/filing-online/filing-documents-during-outage. If you have questions, please contact the EBC (Patent Electronic Business Center) at 1-866-217-9197, Monday through Friday from 6 a.m. - 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 the document cannot be filed electronically, you must use an alternative method of filing. Please visit the Outage Page for information concerning TTAB alternative filing methods. If you have any questions, contact the TTAB Assistance Center during normal business hours by phone at 571-272-8500 or email TTABInfo@uspto.gov.

Trademark System Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance on the Trademark TMNG System beginning at 10 p.m., Friday, April 7 and ending at 10 a.m., Saturday, April 8 ET.

Trademarks Search and Document Retrieval (TSDR), TMNG-IDM, and Trademark Official Gazette (TMOG) will be intermittently unavailable during the maintenance, however, the PDF version of the gazette will be available during the maintenance period.

The maintenance will also prevent use of the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS) initial application forms during the maintenance window.

Systems Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance impacting several systems beginning at 2 a.m., Saturday, April 8 and ending at 5 a.m., Saturday, April 8 ET.

The following systems will be unavailable during the maintenance period:
  • Electronic Patents Assignment System (EPAS)
  • Electronic Trademarks Assignment System (ETAS)
  • Office of Enrollment and Discipline Roster of Patent Attorneys/Agents (OEDCI)
  • Electronic Freedom of Information Act (EFOIA)

 

OEMS Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance activities for the Online document Entry Management System (OEMS) beginning at 12:01 a.m., Saturday, April 8 and ending at 5 a.m., Saturday, April 8  ET.
 
During this maintenance period the OEMS will be unable to accept new orders, and OEMS users cannot check order statuses. However OEMS users will be able to download existing orders.
 

OEMS Maintenance 2

The USPTO will perform maintenance activities for the Online document Entry Management System (OEMS) beginning at 12:01 a.m., Monday, April 10 and ending at 5:30 a.m., Monday, April 10  ET.
 
During this maintenance period the OEMS users cannot check order statuses. However, OEMS will continue to accept new orders, and OEMS users will be able to download existing orders.
 

Private PAIR Maintenance 1

The USPTO will perform maintenance on the Private Patent Application Information Retrieval  (Private PAIR) system beginning at 12:01 a.m., Monday, April 10 and ending at 5 a.m., Monday, April 10 ET.

During the maintenance period, Customer Number updates and Customer Number creation functionality will not be available in Private PAIR.

Patent Trial Appeal Board End-to-End (PTAB E2E) Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance on the Patent Trial Appeal Board End-to-End (PTAB E2E) system beginning at 5 a.m., Saturday, April 8, and ending at 7 a.m. Saturday, April 8 ET.

The system will be unavailable during this maintenance period.