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.
MyUSPTO Maintenance
The OCIO will perform maintenance on the MyUSPTO application on two nights:
- The first night of maintenance will begin at 12:01 a.m., Tuesday, September 28 and end at 5:30 a.m., Tuesday, September 28 ET.
- The final night of maintenance will begin at 12:01 a.m., Sunday, October 3 and end at 5:30 a.m., Sunday, October 3 ET.
During the maintenance period, MyUSPTO will be available, but might experience some slow response time.
BDSS Maintenance
The OCIO will perform maintenance on Bulk Data Storage System (BDSS), beginning at 11 a.m., Wednesday, September 29 and ending at 5 p.m., Wednesday, September 29 ET.
During the maintenance period, BDSS will be unavailable.
EAIS Patch Update
The USPTO will perform a patch update on all Enterprise Architecture Infrastructure Server (EAIS) Red Hat Linux production servers beginning at 12:01 a.m., Friday, October 1 and ending at 5 a.m., Friday, October 1 ET.
During this time all files transfer to and from USPTO will not be available.
All USPTO EAIS users should stop file transfer to and from USPTO during this period. Once the patch update is completed, the EAIS team will send out a notification to ALL EAIS user.
If you have any questions or concerns please the EAIS team @ eais-admin@uspto.gov.
OEDIS Maintenance
The OCIO will perform maintenance on the Office of Enrollment and Discipline Information System (OEDIS) beginning at 12:01 a.m., Friday, October 1 and ending at 5:30 a.m., Friday, October 1 ET.
During the maintenance period, OEDIS will be unavailable.
EFS-Web Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance on the Electronic Filing System-Web (EFS-Web) beginning at 12:01 a.m., Saturday, October 2 and ending at 5:30 a.m., Saturday, October 2 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.
Posted at 04:16AM Sep 28, 2021 in Planned Events |