Planned Events
Multiple
System Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance affecting multiple systems
during two segments from 9:30
a.m. until 10 a.m. and from 8 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. on Friday, May 5 ET.
During the first maintenance
period, user access to the following applications might be interrupted:
- Certified
Copy Center (CCC)
- Fee
Payment Processing (FPNG)
- MyUSPTO
- Office
of Enrollment and Discipline - Customer Interface (OEDIS - CI)
- 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 and Document Retrieval (TSDR)
During the second maintenance
period, user access to the following applications might be interrupted:
- EFS
Web (Electronic Filing System-Web)
- Patent
Center
- Private
PAIR (Patent Application Information Retrieval)
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/P-TACTS 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 Patent Trial and Appeal Case Tracking System (P-TACTS), you
may use an alternate filing method.
Please visit the P-TACTS FAQ page: https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/p-tacts_faqs_20221007.pdf
and see A2 for information concerning your America Invents Act (AIA) petition
filing and/or document filing using P-TACTS alternative filing methods
Trademark Customers: 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
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, May 7 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 11:08AM May 04, 2023 in Planned Events |