USPTO Systems Status and Availability

Friday May 08, 2020

Planned Events

Multiple Systems Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance affecting multiple systems beginning at 12:01 a.m., Saturday, May 9 and ending at 5 a.m., Saturday, May 9 ET.

The following systems and systems that interface with these systems will be unavailable during the maintenance period:

• Patent Center
• EFS-Web for Registered eFilers
• Private PAIR
• Sponsorship Tool

During this 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, use an alternative filing method.

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

USPTO Systems Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance beginning at 12:01 a.m., Saturday, May 9 and ending at 5 a.m., Saturday, May 9 ET.

These systems will be unavailable:

Trademark Official Gazette (TMOG)

You can access recent PDF versions of the gazette on the Trademark Official Gazette webpage or older versions on the archived editions page.

Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TSDR)
Trademark Next Generation ID Manual (TMNG-IDM)

These systems will be impacted:

Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)

Initial applications will be unavailable. Links to TSDR and images from TSDR, including mark images, will be unavailable.

Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASi)

Links to TSDR and images from TSDR, including mark images, will be unavailable.

During the maintenance period the following manuals will be unavailable:

Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP)
Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure (TMEP)
Trademark Federal Statutes and Rules (TFSR)
Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Manual of Procedure (TBMP)

Electronic Filing System-Web Maintenance

The USPTO will be performing maintenance on Electronic Filing System-Web (EFS-Web) beginning at 12 a.m., Saturday, May 9 and ending at 5:30 a.m., Saturday, May 9 ET.

Services provided by EFS-Web for Registered eFilers, EFS-Web for Unregistered eFilers, and EFS-Web Contingency will be unavailable during this maintenance window.

If you need to file a new patent application or follow-on submission to an existing application during the maintenance period, please use an alternative filing method.

If you have questions, please contact the Patent Electronic Business Center (EBC) at (866) 217-9197 during their operating hours of 6 a.m. to midnight, Monday - Friday ET, or email EBC@USPTO.GOV.

OEDCI Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance on the Office of Enrollment and Discipline Patent Practitioner Search, Registered Practitioner Portal, and Exam Applicant Portal (OEDCI) beginning at 6 p.m., Wednesday, May 13 and ending at 8 p.m., Wednesday, May 13 ET.

OEDCI will be unavailable during the maintenance period.

Additionally, Adjudicated Case Tracking System (ACTS) and Patent Trial Appeal Board End to End (PTAB E2E) will be unable to access OEDCI during the maintenance period.

OEDCI users should save all work and log off before the maintenance period begins.

TESS, TDSCM Maintenance and Archived TMEP

Trademark Design and Search Code Manual (TDSCM), Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS) and Archived Trademark Manual for Examination Procedures (Archived TMEP) will be unavailable beginning at 12:01 a.m., Thursday, May 14 and ending at 5:30 a.m., Thursday, May 14 ET.

This maintenance will not affect access to the current TMEP and all previous versions available at https://tmep.uspto.gov/.

We are performing maintenance to improve system security.

Complete all your work in TDSCM, TESS and Archived TMEP before 12:01 a.m., Thursday, May 14 ET.

Systems Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance affecting several systems beginning at 12:01 a.m., Sunday, May 17 and ending at 8 a.m., Sunday, May 17 ET.

The following systems and systems that interface with these systems will be unavailable during the maintenance period:

Electronic Freedom of Information Act (eFOIA)

Electronic Filing System Web (EFS-Web & EFS-Web Contingency)

Office of Enrollment and Discipline Roster of Patent Attorneys/Agents (OEDCI)
Patent Trial and Appeal Board End-to-End System (PTAB-E2E)
Private Patent Application Information Retrieval (Private PAIR)
Public Patent Application Information Retrieval (Public PAIR)
Publication Site for Issued and Published Sequences (PSIPS)
Financial Manager and Patent Maintenance Fees Storefront
Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASi)
Trademark Official Gazette (TMOG)
Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS)

The maintenance will also cause interruptions to payment processing for users of the Electronic Trademark Assignment Search (ETAS), the Order Entry Management System (OEMS), the Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA), and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board End to End (PTAB-E2E).

For Patent Customers:

For more information about filing documents during an outage, please visit https://www.uspto.gov/patents-application-process/filing-online/filing-documents-during-outage.

If you have questions, please contact the EBC (Patent Electronic Business Center) at 1-866-217-9197, Monday through Friday from 6AM - Midnight ET, or email ebc@uspto.gov.

For 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 (https://www.uspto.gov/patents-application-process/patent-trial-and-appeal-board/ptab-e2e-frequently-asked-questions) 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 Trials@uspto.gov (link sends e-mail).

For Trademark Customers:

If your deadline is today and the document requiring a fee payment cannot be filed electronically, you must use an alternative method of filing.

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 (link sends e-mail).

For TTAB Customers:

If your deadline is today and the document cannot be filed electronically, you must use an alternative method of filing.

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 by telephone at 571-272-8500 or email TTABInfo@uspto.gov (link sends e-mail).

PALM Database Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance affecting multiple systems beginning at 12:01 a.m., Saturday, May 23 and ending at 11:59 p.m., Saturday, May 23 ET.

The systems listed below will be unavailable during the maintenance period:

Public Patent Application Information Retrieval (Public PAIR)

Private Patent Application Information Retrieval (Private PAIR)

Global Dossier (GD)
One Portfolio Dossier (OPD)
Patent Global Dossier Public Access Dossier (P-GD-PAD)
PTAB E2E
Office of Enrollment and Discipline Information System (OEDIS)
Electronic Freedom of Information Act (E-FOIA)
Patent Maintenance Fees Storefront

The systems listed below may be unavailable during the maintenance:

Electronic Patent Assignment System (ePAS)
Financial Manager and Patent Maintenance Fees Storefront

The maintenance will cause an outage to payment processing for USPTO storefronts. Users of the following systems should not attempt to make a payment during the maintenance period:

Electronic Filing System (EFS-Web)
Patent Maintenance Fee Storefront
Order Entry Management System (OEMS)

For Patent Customers:

During the maintenance period, EFS-Web applicants may file new patent applications and follow-on submissions without fees.

Please do not file ePetitions, eTerminal Disclaimers, Web 85b, or any submissions which require fee payment at time of submission, since these will fail without successful payment.

EFS-Web Applicants:

During the maintenance period, if you need to file a new patent application (except 371 National Stage), please use EFS-Web Contingency: https://www.uspto.gov/patents-application-process/applying-online/efs-web-contingency

For follow-on submissions, please use an alternative filing method.
If you have questions, please contact the EBC (Patent Electronic Business Center) at 1-866-217-9197, Monday through Friday from 6 a.m., until 12 a.m. ET, or email ebc@uspto.gov.

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