Planned Events
Office of Enrollment Discipline Information System
The USPTO will perform maintenance on the OEDIS beginning at 7 p.m., Wednesday, May 4 and ending at 8 p.m., Wednesday, May 4 ET.
During the maintenance period, the following systems will be unavailable:
• Patent Practitioner Search
• Registered Practitioner Portal
• Exam Applicant Portal
Trademark System Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance on the Trademark Examination system, briefly, from 8 p.m. to 8:10 p.m., on Thursday, May 5 ET.
During the maintenance period, 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)
Vendor Portal Maintenance
The USPTO will perform system maintenance on the Vendor Portal FPNG- Credit Card Payments Maintenancebeginning at 12:01 a.m., Thursday, May 5 and ending at 5 a.m., Thursday, May 5 ET.
Vendor Portal will be unavailable during the maintenance period.
FPNG-Credit Card Payments Maintenance
Due to USPTO system and third-party maintenance activities, credit/debit card payments cannot be accepted between midnight and 1 a.m., and then again between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Saturday, May 7 ET.
The following USPTO storefronts will be unable to accept credit/debit card payments during the maintenance period:
- Electronic Filing System-Web (EFS-Web)
- Electronic Filing System-Web Contingency (EFS-Web Contingency)
- Patent Center
- Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTABE2E)
- Patent Maintenance Fees Storefront (FPNG)
- Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
- Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASI)
- Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA)
- Electronic Trademark Assignment Search (ETAS)
- Office of Enrollment and Discipline Customer Interface (OEDCI)
- Certified Copy Center (CCC)
Customers with an already established USPTO Deposit Account or Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) Account may still pay using one of these payment methods during these maintenance windows.
If you are unable to wait until the maintenance activities have 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: https://www.uspto.gov/patents/ptab/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.
Patent Electronic Filing System-Web (EFS-Web) Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance on EFS-Web beginning at 8 p.m., Sunday, May 8 and ending at 10 p.m., Sunday, May 8 ET.
During this maintenance period, Fee Worksheets and Acknowledgement Receipts for submissions will not be generated.
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.
Posted at 03:28AM May 04, 2022 in Planned Events |