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, December 17 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.
During the deployment period, the Patent Public Search will be unavailable.
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.
Office of Enrollment Discipline Information System (OEDIS) Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance on the OEDIS from 12:01 a.m. until 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday, December 21 ET.
During the maintenance period, OEDIS will be unavailable.
EMERGENCY: Multiple Systems Maintenance
The USPTO will be performing maintenance from 12:01 until 2 a.m. on Friday, December 16 ET.
Only external users will be affected by this maintenance. External users will not be able to access any Okta protected endpoints.
During this time, 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 )
- Patent Trial and Appeal Case Tracking System (PTACTS)
- Trademark Electronic Application System - (TEASi)
- Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
- Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS-Media)
- Trademark Status Document Retrieval (TSDR) API
- Trademark- eOG(TM- eOG)
- Trademark Admin (TM-ADMIN)
- Trademark ID Manual (TM- IDM)
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 07:40AM Dec 16, 2022 in Planned Events |