USPTO Systems Status and Availability

Planned Events

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, March 26 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.

Docket Application Viewer (DAV) Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance on the DAV from 12 a.m. until 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday, March 28 ET. 

During the maintenance period, CMS will be unavailable.

The following systems will be partially impacted during the maintenance:

• Patent Center and Private Patent Application Information Retrieval (Private PAIR)

During the maintenance period, previously submitted documents will be unavailable at the Patent Center and Private PAIR's IFW tab. New documents submitted via Patent Center and Electronic Filing System-Web (EFS-Web) will experience longer than expected delays in becoming available in the Patent Center and Private PAIR's IFW tab. Customers should check back Wednesday, March 29, to see if the impacted submissions are available at Patent Center and Private PAIR.

• Global Dossier (GD) and One Portal Dossier (OPD)

During the maintenance period, all documents will not be viewable, and downloadable.

Systems Maintenance 

The USPTO will perform maintenance affecting several systems beginning at 12:01 a.m., Saturday, April 1 and ending at 9 a.m., Saturday, April 1 ET.  

The following systems and systems that interface with them 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 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. 

Posted at 11:08AM Mar 23, 2023 in Planned Events  |