USPTO Systems Status and Availability

Friday Jul 09, 2021

Planned Events

Vendor Portal Maintenance

The USPTO will perform system maintenance affecting the Vendor Portal beginning at 8 a.m., Saturday, July 10 and ending at 1 p.m., Saturday, July 10 ET.

During the maintenance period, Vendor Portal users will not be able to submit and process invoices and eDeliverables.​​​

PTONet Network Switch Code Upgrade

The USPTO will perform maintenance on switches impacting all public facing applications beginning at 10 p.m., Saturday, July 10 and ending at 5:30 a.m., Sunday, July 11 ET.  These applications:  MyUSPTO, TEAS, TEASi, EFSWeb, Patent Center, PTAB-E2E, ESTTA, Maintenance Fees Storefront, CCC, and OEDCI will be impacted between 12:01 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. on Sunday, July 11 ET.

All applications will experience intermittent outages during the maintenance period, and payment processing across the USPTO storefronts will be unavailable between 12:01 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. on Sunday.