USPTO Systems Status and Availability

Tuesday Oct 02, 2018

MyUSPTO Maintenance impacting EFS web, Private PAIR and Financial Manager

MyUSPTO Maintenance impacting EFS web, Private PAIR and Financial Manager

The USPTO is performing monthly MyUSPTO maintenance beginning at 12:01 a.m., Wednesday, October 3 and ending at 2 a.m., Wednesday, October 3 ET.

New users will not be able to register for a uspto.gov account during the maintenance period. Access to EFS-Web and Private PAIR and the migration tool using a USPTO.gov account will be unavailable.

Please authenticate using a PKI certificate during the maintenance period:

  • EFS-Web: https://efs.uspto.gov/TruePassWebStart/AuthenticationChooser.html
  • Private PAIR: https://ppair.uspto.gov/TruePassWebStart/AuthenticationChooser.html

     

      The maintenance will also impact the ability for Financial Manager users to add new users or make changes to user permissions for stored payment methods.