USPTO Systems Status and Availability

Friday Dec 30, 2022

Planned Events

System (TEAS) and Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASi) Maintenance
The TEAS System will be unavailable due to system maintenance from midnight until 1 a.m. on Sunday, January 1 ET. 

Updates will be made to the ID manual to comply with the Nice Agreement Eleventh Edition.

Identifications of goods and services may be outdated on January 1. Please file saved and e-signature initial application forms by 11:59 p.m., Saturday, December 31 ET.

Trademark System Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance on Trademark systems from 12 a.m. until 5:30 a.m. on Thursday, January 5 ET. 

The following systems will be impacted:

    • Trademark Official Gazette (TMOG) will not be available. You can access recent PDF versions of the gazette on the Trademark Official Gazette webpage. For archived PDF versions of gazettes dating back to 2001, visit the archived editions page
    • Trademarks ID Manual (IDM) will not be available.
    • Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS) initial application forms will not be available.
    • TTAB Reading Room will not be available.
    • Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TSDR) will be available, but all documents may not be viewable. 

The following systems will remain available, but links to and images derived from TSDR will be unavailable, including mark images.

    • Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
    • Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASi)


Systems Maintenance 

The USPTO will perform maintenance affecting several systems beginning at 12:01 a.m., Saturday, January 7 and ending at 9 a.m. Saturday, January 7 ET.  

The following systems and systems that interface with these systems will be unavailable during the maintenance period: 

    •   Electronic Filing System Web (EFS-Web & EFS-Web Contingency)
    • Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA)
    • Office of Enrollment and Discipline Roster of Patent Attorneys/Agents (OEDCI)
    • Patent Center and Sponsorship tool
    • Patent Trial and Appeal Tracking System (P-TACTS)
    • Private Patent Application Information Retrieval (Private PAIR)
    • Public Patent Application Information Retrieval (Public PAIR)
    • Publication Site for Issued and Published Sequences (PSIPS)
    • Financial Manager and Patent Maintenance Fees Storefront
    • Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
    • Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASi)
    • Trademark Official Gazette (TMOG)
    • Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS)
    • Trademark Trial and Appeal Board VUE (TTABVUE)

The maintenance will also cause interruptions to payment processing for users of the Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA), the Electronic Trademark Assignment Search (ETAS), the Order Entry Management System (OEMS), and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board End to End (PTAB-E2E).

Patent Customers: 

For more information about filing documents during an outage, please visit https://www.uspto.gov/patents-application-process/filing-online/filing-documents-during-outage.

If you have questions, please contact the EBC (Patent Electronic Business Center) at 1-866-217-9197, Monday through Friday from 6AM - Midnight ET, or email ebc@uspto.gov

P-TACTS Customers

If your deadline is today for the petition filing and/or other associated documents to a pending AIA case and you cannot file electronically via the Patent Trial and Appeal Tracking System (P-TACTS), you may use an alternative filing method. Please visit the P-TACTS FAQ page (https://www.uspto.gov/patents-application-process/patent-trial-and-appeal-board/ptab-e2e-frequently-asked-questions) and see A2 for information concerning your AIA petition filing and/or document filing using P-TACTS alternative filing methods. If you have any questions, contact P-TACTS 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:

If your deadline is today and the document requiring a fee payment cannot be filed electronically, you must use an alternative method of filing. Please visit the Trademark Outage Page for information concerning Trademark alternative filing methods. If you have any questions, contact the TEAS Team by email TEAS@uspto.gov.

TTAB Customers:

If your deadline is today and the document cannot be filed electronically, you must use an alternative method of filing. Please visit the TTAB Outage Page 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.