Planned Events
Multiple Systems Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance affecting multiple systems beginning at 12:01 a.m., Thursday, October 6 and ending at 2 a.m., Thursday, October 6 ET.
During this maintenance period, availability of Supplemental Content data for new applications and follow-ons filed will be delayed in the following systems:
- Patent Center
- Private Patent Application Information Retrieval (Private PAIR)
Please check Patent Center or Private PAIR after the maintenance period for confirmation of availability of the Supplemental Content Data. 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.
Trademark System Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance on the Trademark Content Management (TM-CMS) and Abstraction Layer (TM-AL) systems on the following dates:
• The maintenance for TM-CMS will begin at 12:01 a.m., Friday, October 7 and end at 5:30 a.m., Friday, October 7 ET.
• The maintenance for TM-AL will begin at 1:30 a.m., Friday, October 7 and end at 2:30 a.m., Friday, October 7 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 the TSDR system beginning at 12:01 a.m., Friday, October 7 and ending at 2 a.m., Friday, October 7 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
Assignments on the Web (AOTW) Maintenance
The USPTO will be perform an upgrade on AOTW beginning at 9 a.m., Saturday, October 8 and ending at 1:30 p.m., Saturday, October 8 ET.
During the maintenance period, there will be a complete outage for AOTW.
TTABVUE and TSDR are up but the assignment website will unavailable during the maintenance period.
The USPTO will perform maintenance on Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA), Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Inquiry System (TTABVUE), and TTAB Reading-Room (TTAB-RR) beginning at 12 a.m., Saturday, October 8 and ending at 3 a.m., Saturday, October 8 ET.
During the maintenance period, ESTTA, TTABVUE, and TTAB-RR will be unavailable.
Patent Electronic Filing System-Web (EFS-Web) Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance on EFS-Web beginning at 8 p.m., Sunday, October 9 and ending at 10 p.m., Sunday, October 9 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.
Patent Trial and Appeal Board End-to-End (PTAB-E2E) Maintenance
The USPTO will be perform maintenance on the P-TACTS beginning at 5 p.m., Sunday, October 9 and ending at 11 p.m., Monday, October 10 ET.
During the maintenance, the PTAB-E2E system will be unavailable.
Please note, October 10 is a federal holiday and the USPTO offices are closed.
Posted at 03:40PM Oct 05, 2022 in Planned Events |