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.
Office of Enrollment Discipline Information System (OEDIS) Deployment
The USPTO will perform maintenance on OEDIS beginning at 6 p.m., Friday, October 1 and ending at 7 p.m., Friday, October 1 ET.
The following systems will be unavailable during the maintenance period:
- Patent Practitioner Search
- Registered Practitioner Portal
- Exam Applicant Portal
Posted at 03:56AM Oct 01, 2021 in Planned Events |