USPTO Systems Status and Availability

Wednesday Sep 15, 2021

Planned Events

Standalone Sponsorship Tool Discontinued

As of September 15, 2021, the standalone Sponsorship Tool at https://patentcenter-sponsorships.uspto.gov/ will no longer be available.

Please use the Sponsorship feature in Patent Center to view and manage support staff sponsorships for EFS-Web, Private PAIR, and Patent Center. You may use your same uspto.gov account information to sign in to all filing systems. After signing in to Patent Center at https://patentcenter.uspto.gov/#!/, you can access the sponsorship tool under the Manage > Sponsor Users menu option.

If you have browser bookmarks or favorites to the standalone Sponsorship Tool, please update them to https://patentcenter.uspto.gov/#!/.

See the Patent Center Sponsorship Guide for more information.

For questions or assistance, please contact the Patent Electronic Business Center (EBC) at 866-217-9197 during their operating hours of 6 a.m. to midnight ET, Monday - Friday,  or email ebc@uspto.gov.

​EFS-Web Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance on the Electronic Filing System-Web (EFS-Web) system beginning at 12:01 a.m., Saturday, September 18 and ending at 5:30 a.m., Saturday, September 18 ET.

During the maintenance period, the following applications will be unavailable:

  • EFS-Web for Registered eFilers
  • EFS-Web for Unregistered eFilers
  • EFS-Web Contingency

During the maintenance period, applicants can use Patent Center to submit patent applications and follow-on submissions.

For assistance and questions, please contact the Patent EBC at 1-866-217-9197, Monday through Friday from 6 a.m. to midnight ET, or email ebc@uspto.gov.