USPTO Systems Status and Availability

Friday Apr 01, 2022

Planned Events

Patent and Trademark Assignment System (PTAS) Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance on PTAS beginning at 10 p.m., Friday, April 1 and ending at 1 a.m., Saturday, April 2 ET.

During the maintenance period, The Electronic Trademark Assignment System (ETAS) will be unavailable.

Public Patent Application Information Retrieval (Public-PAIR)

The USPTO will perform maintenance on  Public-PAIR beginning at 12:01 a.m., Friday, April 1 and ending at 5 a.m., Friday, April 1 ET.

Public-PAIR will be unavailable during the maintenance period.

Please use Patent Center as an alternative to electronically file and retrieve patent applications.

Trademark Examination System Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance on the Trademark Examination system beginning at 8 a.m., Saturday, April 2 and ending at 9 a.m., Saturday, April 2 ET.

No outage is expected though users may experience a brief "blip."

The following system may incur a brief outage or loss of functionality during the maintenance:

    •    Trademark Official Gazette (TMOG)

Electronic Filing System-Web (EFS-Web) Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance on EFS-Web beginning at 8 p.m., Sunday, April 3 and ending at 10 p.m., Sunday, April 3 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.

Applicants may file submissions in EFS-Web during this time, but wait until Monday for those documents to be generated. Applicants may still file submissions via Patent Center.