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, February 18 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 Trademark Assignments System (ETAS) and Electronic Patent Assignment System (EPAS)
The USPTO Certified Copy and Assignments (CC&A) Product team will perform maintenance on the ETAS and EPAS system from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Saturday, February 18 ET.
During the maintenance period, the ETAS and EPAS products will be unavailable.
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, February 19 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.
Posted at 07:23AM Feb 17, 2023 in Planned Events |