Planned Events
Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance on servers affecting PTAB Interference (i-filing) beginning at 11:59 p.m., Wednesday, August 10 and ending at 5:30 a.m., Thursday, August 11 ET.
During the maintenance period, users may experience intermittent issues with PTAB.
Trademark (TM) Systems Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance on the TM systems beginning at 12:01 a.m., Thursday, August 11 and ending at 5:30 a.m., Thursday, August 11 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)
System Maintenance
The USPTO will implement new account management technology beginning at 12:01 a.m., Saturday, August 13 and ending at 5:30 a.m., Saturday, August 13 ET.
During this maintenance period, the following systems will be unavailable:
- API Key Manager
- EFS Web (Electronic Filing System-Web)
- Fee Payment Processing (FPNG)
- MyUSPTO
- Certified Copy Center (CCC)
- Office of Enrollment and Discipline - Customer Interface (OEDIS - CI)
- Patent Center (eMOD)
- Private PAIR (Patent Application Information Retrieval )
- Trademark Electronic Application System - (TEASi)
- Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
- Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS-Media)
- Trademark Status Document Retrieval (TSDR) API
Patent Customers:
During the maintenance period, applicants may file new applications, except for National Stage applications under 35 U.S.C. 371, via EFS-Web Unregistered.
If you need to file a National Stage application under 35 U.S.C. 371 or follow-on submission to an existing application during the maintenance period, please use the alternative filing method.
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.
Posted at 12:25AM Aug 08, 2022 in Planned Events |