Planned Events
System Maintenance
The USPTO will implement new account management technology from 12:01 a.m. until 3 a.m. on Friday, June 2 ET.
During this time, the following systems may be unavailable:
• API Key Manager
• EFS Web (Electronic Filing System-Web)
• Fee Payment Processing (FPNG)
• MyUSPTO
• Certified Copy Center (CCC)
• Office of Enrollment and Discipline - Customer Interface (OEDIS - CI)
• Patent Center (eMOD)
• Private PAIR (Patent Application Information Retrieval)
• Patent Trial and Appeal Case Tracking System (PTACTS)
• Trademark Electronic Application System - (TEASi)
• Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
• Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS-Media)
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.
Vendor Portal Maintenance
The USPTO will perform system maintenance on the Vendor Portal beginning at 8 p.m., Friday, June 2 and ending at 1 a.m., Saturday, June 3 ET.
Vendor Portal will be unavailable during the maintenance period.
Trademark Trial and Appeal Board VUE (TTABVUE) and Trademark Trial and Appeals-Reading Room (TTAB-RR) Migration
The USPTO will perform a migration on TTABVUE and TTAB-RR from the Production Data Center in Alexandria to a new Data Center in Manassas, from 12:01 a.m. until 5 a.m. on Saturday, June 3 ET.
Note: During the migration window, TTABVUE, TTAB-RR and ESTTA will be unavailable.
Electronic Patent Assignments System (EPAS) and Electronic Trademark Assignments System (ETAS)
The USPTO Certified Copy and Assignments (CC&A) Product team will perform maintenance on the EPAS and ETAS systems from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Saturday, June 3 ET.
During the maintenance period, the EPAS and ETAS products will be unavailable.
Trademark Trial and Appeal Board VUE (TTABVUE) and Trademark Trial and Appeals-Reading Room (TTAB-RR) Migration
The USPTO will perform a migration on TTABVUE and TTAB-RR from the Production Data Center in Alexandria to a new Data Center in Manassas, from 12:01 a.m. until 5 a.m. on Saturday, June 3 ET.
Note: TTABVUE and TTAB RR will be unavailable during the migration window.
Electronic Filing System (EFS) Web Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance on EFS-Web from 8 p.m. until 10 p.m. on Sunday, June 4 ET.
During this maintenance period, Fee Worksheets and Acknowledgement Receipts for submissions will not be generated.
Applicants may file submissions in EFS-Web but wait until Monday for those documents to be generated. Applicants may still file submissions via Patent Center.
Posted at 07:54AM Jun 01, 2023 in Planned Events |