USPTO Systems Status and Availability

Wednesday Feb 08, 2023

Planned Events

Multiple Manuals Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance impacting multiple manuals from 12:01 a.m. until 5:30 a.m. on Thursday, February 9 ET.  

During the maintenance period, the following manuals will be momentarily unavailable between 12:01 a.m. and 12:30 a.m. : 

Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (eMPEP)

Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure (TMEP)

Trademark Federal Statutes and Rules (TFSR)

Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Manual of Procedure (TBMP)

seqdata.uspto.gov Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance on seqdata.uspo.gov beginning at 12 a.m., Thursday, February 9 and ending at 5:30 a.m., Friday, February 10 ET.

During the maintenance, seqdata.uspo.gov will be unavailable during that time period.

Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM-IDaaS) Maintenance

The USPTO will perform a maintenance affecting multiple systems configured through ICAM-IDaaS from 12:01 a.m. until 3 a.m. on Friday, February 10 ET.

During the maintenance, the following systems may be affected:

    • Admin Op

    • API Key Manager

    • Big Data Reservoir Trademark Quality Review (BDR- TQR)

    • Central Enterprise Data Repository (CEDR)

    • COMET/DART (APEX)

    • Core Financial System – Momentum

    • Enterprise Budget Tools

    • EFS-Web (Electronic Filing System-Web)

    • Fee Processing

    • MyUSPTO

    • MyUSPTO (Account)

    • OEMS NG AKA Certified Copy Center (CCC)

    • Office of Enrollment and Discipline - Customer Interface (OEDIS - CI)

    • Patent Center Support Patent Service for Time and Routing (P-STAR)

    • Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB-E2E)

    • PE2E Sequence Listing Access (SLIC)

    • PE2E Bio-Sequence

    • Private PAIR (Patent Application Information Retrieval)

    • TMNG Document Management Trademark Admin (TM-ADMIN)

    • Trademark Electronic Application System (TEASi)

    • Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)

    •Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS-Media)

    • Trademark- e0G (TM- eOG)

    • Trademark- Exam (TM Exam)

    • Trademark-ID Manual (TM- IDM)

    • Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TSDR)

There is no outage expected for any of the above applications, but it is possible.

Trademark Examination System Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance on the Trademark Examination System from 10 p.m. until 11:59 p.m. on Friday, February 10 ET.

The following systems may incur a brief outage during the maintenance:

    • Trademark Examination

    • Trademark Official Gazette (TMOG)

    • Trademark Next Generation ID Manual (TMNG-IDM)

    • TTAB EFOIA

No user action is required. If you do experience an issue, please try clearing your browser cache (Ctrl-Shift-Del) prior to contacting the Service Desk.

Private Patent Application Information Retrieval (Private-PAIR) Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance on Private-PAIR from 12:01 a.m. until 5:30 a.m. on Saturday, February 11 ET.

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