Planned Events
Multiple Systems Maintenance
The USPTO will be performing routine maintenance beginning at 12:01 a.m., Saturday, February 6 and ending at 9 a.m., Saturday, February 6 ET.
During the maintenance, there may be brief interruptions for some services. Users should retry if an operation is interrupted or does not appear to have been completed.
The following systems will be impacted:
- Electronic Freedom of Information Act (E-FOIA)
- Assignments on the Web (AOTW)
- Electronic Patent Assignment System (EPAS)
- Fee Processing Next Generation (FPNG)
- Order Entry Management System (OEMS)
- Certified Copy Center (CCC)
- Private PAIR
- Patent Center
In addition, there will be a complete outage for the following systems from 12:01 a.m. to 6 a.m.:
- MyUSPTO
- Electronic Filing System- Web (EFS-WEB)
- Patent Global Dossier Public Access Dossier (P-GD-PAD)
MyUSPTO Maintenance
The USPTO is performing MyUSPTO maintenance beginning at 12:01 a.m., Sunday, February 7 and ending at 5 a.m., Sunday, February 7 ET.
The my.uspto.gov website will be unavailable during the maintenance period.
You will not be able to register for a new uspto.gov account during the maintenance and you will not be able to sign in to Patent Center, the Patent Center Sponsorship tool, Private PAIR, EFS-Web, TEAS, and OEDIS CI.
During the maintenance period, Patent applicants can file new applications via Patent Center as a guest filer, EFS-Web Contingency, or use an alternative filing method.
For trademark (TEAS) customers, please wait to use TEAS until after the maintenance window. Filing deadlines that fall on a Saturday extend to the next business day. If you have any questions, contact the TEAS team by email TEAS@uspto.gov.
The maintenance will also impact the ability for Financial Manager users to add new users or make changes to user permissions.
Vendor Portal Maintenance
The USPTO will perform system maintenance affecting the Vendor Portal beginning at 8 a.m., Saturday, February 6 and ending at 12 p.m., Saturday, February 6 ET.
During the maintenance period, Vendor Portal users will not be able to submit and process invoices and eDeliverables.
Multiple Systems Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance affecting multiple systems beginning at 12:01 a.m., Tuesday, February 9 and ending at 2 a.m., Tuesday, February 9 ET.
During this maintenance period, the following systems will be unavailable:
- Central Enterprise Data Repository (CEDR)
- Certified Copy Center (CCC)
- Electronic Filing System (EFS-Web)
- Fee Processing Next Generation (FPNG)
- MyUSPTO
- Office of Enrollment and Discipline Information System – Customer Interface (OEDIS-CI)
- Office of Enrollment and Discipline Information System (OEDIS)
- Patent Center
- Patent End-2-End AdminOPS (PE2E AdminOPS)
- Patent Trial and Appeal Board End-to-End (PTAB-E2E)
- Private Patent Application Information Retrieval (Private PAIR)
- Sequence Listing Information Control (SLIC)
- Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
- Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASi)
- Trademark Next Generation Document Management (DocMgmt)
- Trademark Next Generation Examination (TMNG-Exam)
- Trademark Next Generation ID Manual (TMNG-IDM)
- Trademark Next Generation Official Gazette (TMOG) Patent Customers:
During the maintenance period, if you need to file a new patent application, you can use EFS-Web for Unregistered eFilers or EFS-Web Contingency. If you need to file a follow-on submission or pay fees, use an alternative filing or payment method. If you have questions, please contact the Patent Electronic Business Center (EBC) at 1-866-217-9197, Monday through Friday from 6:00 a.m. - midnight ET, or email ebc@uspto.gov.
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 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.
Trademark Customers:
If your deadline is today and the document requiring a fee payment cannot be filed electronically, you must use an alternate method of filling. 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.
TTAB Customers:
If your deadline is today and the document cannot be filed electronically, you must use an alternative method of filing method. 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.
Posted at 02:45AM Feb 03, 2021 in Planned Events |