USPTO Systems Status and Availability

Friday Aug 09, 2019

Planned Events

Private PAIR Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance on Private PAIR Information Retrieval (Private PAIR) beginning at 12:01 a.m., Wednesday, August 14 and ending at 2 a.m., Wednesday, August 14 ET.

Private PAIR will be unavailable during the maintenance period.

DH-AS Maintenance

The USPTO will be performing maintenance on the Patent and Trademark Assignment Search capability beginning at 12:01 a.m., Tuesday, August 13 and ending at 1 a.m., Tuesday, August 13 ET.

The Patent and Trademark Assignment Search's will momentarily be unavailable during this time period.

Patent Assignment Search is available at: Patent Assignment Search

Trademark Assignment Search is available at: Trademark Assignment Search

Private PAIR Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance on the Private Patent Application Information Retrieval (Private PAIR) beginning at 12:01 a.m., Saturday, August 10 and ending at 5:30 a.m., Saturday, August 10 ET.

Private PAIR may be unavailable during the maintenance period.

Credit/Debit Card Payment Maintenance

The USPTO's third-party Credit Card Processing Service, Pay.gov, will be impacted beginning at 6 p.m., Saturday, August 10 and ending at 10 p.m., Saturday, August 10 ET.

Credit card and debit processing across all USPTO storefronts will be unavailable during this period.

For Patent Customers:

Please do not file ePetitions, eTerminal Disclaimers, Web 85b, or any submissions which require fee payment at time of submission, since these cannot process without successful payment. For more information about submitting payments during a payment 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 PTAB Customers:

If your deadline is today for the petition filing and/or other associated documents to a pending AIA case and you cannot file electronically via the Patent Trial and Appeal Board End-to-End System (PTAB-E2E), you may use an alternative filing method. Please visit the PTAB-E2E FAQ page ( https://www.uspto.gov/patents-application-process/patent-trial-and-appeal-board/ptab-e2e-frequently-asked-questions) and see A2 for information concerning your AIA petition filing and/or document filing using PTAB-E2E alternative filing methods. If you have any questions, contact PTAB during normal business hours of 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET by telephone at 571-272-7822 or email at Trials@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 Trademark Outage Page for information concerning Trademark alternative filing methods. If you have any questions, contact the TEAS Team by email 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 TTAB Outage Page for information concerning Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) alternative filing methods. If you have any questions, contact the TTAB Assistance Center during normal business hours between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, except federal holidays by telephone at 571-272-8500 or email TTABInfo@uspto.gov.