USPTO Systems Status and Availability

Tuesday Oct 18, 2022

Planned Events

Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TSDR) Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance affecting the TSDR system beginning at 12:01 a.m., Friday, October 21 and ending at 2 a.m., Friday, October 21 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

Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS) Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance on TESS beginning at 10 p.m., Friday, October 21 and ending at 11:59 p.m., Friday, October 21 ET.

The following systems will be impacted:

    • Trademark Design Search Codes Manual(TDSCM)

    • PCTRAM (Mark image not available)

    • First Action System for Trademarks (FAST1)/ Form Paragraph Editor Program (FPEP) (Link to TESS unavailable)

    • Trademark Examination TM-Exam) (Link to TESS unavailable)

Private Patent Application Information Retrieval (Private-PAIR) Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance on Private-PAIR beginning at 8 p.m., Friday, October 21 and ending at 10 p.m., Friday, October 21 ET.

During the maintenance period, Private-PAIR will be unavailable. Please use Patent Center as an alternative to electronically retrieve patent applications.