Planned Events
USPTO Customer Contact Management System (UCCMS) Deployment
The USPTO will deploy UCCMS 4.8 beginning at 9 p.m., Friday, December 3 and ending at 5 a.m., Monday, December 6 ET.
During the deployment, customers contacting public-facing contact centers may experience longer than usual wait times.
Trademark System Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance on the Trademark (TM) systems beginning at 10 p.m., Saturday, December 4 and ending at 5:30 a.m., Sunday, December 5 ET.
During the maintenance period, the following systems will remain available, but mark images and documents will be unavailable:
• Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
• Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASi)
• Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TSDR)
• TTAB Reading Room
Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TSDR) Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance affecting Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TSDR) system beginning at 10 p.m., Saturday, December 4 and ending at 2 a.m., Sunday, December 5 ET.
During the maintenance period, TSDR will be unavailable.
Links to TSDR will not be available from the following systems:
• Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
• Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASi)
• Trademarks Electronic Official Gazette (TMOG)
• Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Viewing on the Web (TTABVUE)
• Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS)
• USPTO TM Status mobile app
Fee Payment Processing Maintenance
Due to network maintenance, we will be unable to accept fee payments between midnight, Saturday, December 4 and 2 a.m., Saturday, December 4 ET.
The following storefronts will be impacted by the maintenance:
- Electronic Filing System (EFS-Web)
- Patent Center
- Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB-E2E)
- Patent Maintenance Fees Storefront (FPNG)
- Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
- Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASI)
- Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (ESTTA)
- Office of Enrollment and Discipline Customer Interface (OEDCI)
- Electronic Trademark Assignment System (ETAS)
- Certified Copy Center (CCC)
If you are unable to wait until the maintenance has concluded to pay a fee, the following alternative options are available:
Patent Customers: For more information about filing documents during an outage, please visit: https://www.uspto.gov/patents/apply/filing-online/filing-documents-during-outage. If you have questions, please contact the Patent Electronic Business Center (EBC) at 1-866-217-9197, Monday through Friday from 6 a.m., to midnight ET.
PTAB Customers: If your deadline is today for the petition filing and/or other associated documents to a pending America Invents Act (AIA) case and you cannot file electronically via the Patent Trial and Appeal Board End-to-End (PTAB-E2E) System, you may use an alternative filing method. Please visit the PTAB-E2E FAQ page: PTAB E2E frequently asked questions and see A2 for information concerning your America Invents Act (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 at Trials@uspto.gov.
Trademark Customers: Filing deadlines that fall on a Saturday extend the filing deadline to the next business day. Please try filing again after the maintenance ends. If you have any questions, contact the TEAS Team by email at TEAS@uspto.gov.
TTAB Customers: Please visit the TTAB Outage Page: https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/ttab/filing-ttab-documents-during-outage 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.
PALM PatentCooperation Treaty Operations (PCT-OPS) Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance on PALM PatentCooperation Treaty Operations (PCT-OPS) beginning at 12:01 a.m., Saturday, December 4 and ending at 4 p.m., Saturday, December 4 ET.
During this maintenance period, new PCT applications submitted via EFS-Web and Patent Center will experience delay in application processing. This delay will prevent the filing of follow-on submissions on yet to be processed PCT applications. Once PCTOPS services are fully restored, application processing will resume.
Office of Enrollment Discipline Information System (OEDIS) Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance on the OEDIS system beginning at 7 a.m., Sunday, December 5 and ending at 12 p.m., Sunday, December 5 ET.
The following systems will be unavailable during the maintenance period:
• Patent Practitioner Search
• Registered Practitioner Portal
• Exam Applicant Portal
Electronic Filing System-Web (EFS-WEB) Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance on EFS-WEB beginning at 8 p.m., Sunday, December 5 and ending at 10 p.m., Sunday, December 5 ET.
During this maintenance period, Fee Worksheets and Acknowledgement Receipts for submissions will not be generated. There will be a delay before these documents will be available.
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
Posted at 04:57AM Dec 03, 2021 in Planned Events |