USPTO Systems Status and Availability

Thursday Dec 15, 2022

Planned Events

Multiple Systems Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance affecting multiple systems from 12:01 a.m. until 5:30 a.m. on Saturday, December 17 ET.

The following systems will be unavailable during the maintenance period:

    • EFS-Web for Registered eFilers, Unregistered eFilers, and EFS-Web Contingency

    • Private PAIR

Patent Center will be available as an alternative to electronically file and retrieve patent applications. Please refer to our Filing Documents during an Outage page for other alternative filing method.

Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA) Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance on the ESTTA system from 12:01 a.m. until 2 a.m. on Saturday, December 17 ET.

ESTTA will be unavailable during the maintenance period.

Trademark Trial and Appeal Board VUE (TTABVUE) Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance on TTABVUE from 12:01 a.m. until 6 a.m. on Saturday, December17 ET.

During the maintenance period, TTABVUE will be unavailable.

Patent Public Search (PPUBS) Deployment 

The USPTO will deploy improvements to PPUBS beginning at 11:59 p.m., Friday, December 16 and ending at 1 a.m., Saturday, December 17 ET.

Development Hub - Assignment System (DH-AS) Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance on DH-AS from 9 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, December 17 ET.

During the maintenance period, DH-AS will not available.

Patent Electronic Filing System-Web (EFS-Web) Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance on EFS-Web from 8 p.m. until 10 p.m. on Sunday, December 18 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 Application Security System (PASS) Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance on PASS beginning at 10 p.m., Monday, December 19 and ending at 5 a.m., Tuesday, December 20 ET. 

During the maintenance period, PASS will be unavailable.

Users should save all work and log off before the maintenance period begins.

Bulk Data Storage System (BDSS) Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance on the BDSS from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Wednesday, December 21 ET.

During the maintenance period, BDSS will be unavailable.