USPTO Systems Status and Availability

Wednesday Jul 05, 2023

Planned Events

MyUSPTO Updates

The USPTO will be performing updates to MyUSPTO experience from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Wednesday, July 5 ET. Users may notice slight differences in the security preferences workflow as we continue to improve your USPTO.gov account experience. 

No action is required for this update.

Multiple System Maintenance

The USPTO will perform routine maintenance on database server dsb-corp-db-1.uspto.gov, from 12:01 a.m. until 5:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 8 ET. 

During the maintenance period, the following systems will be unavailable:

    • Assignments Historical Database (AHD)

    • Assignments on the Web (AOTW)

    • Electronic Patent Assignment System (EPAS)

    • Electronic Trademark Assignment System (ETAS)

    • Data Architecture Tools (DAT-Metadata, ER/Studio)

    • Office of Enrollment and Discipline (OEDIS)

    • Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TSDR)

    • Trademark Trial and Appeal Board VUE (TTABVUE)

Multiple System Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance affecting multiple systems from 12:01 a.m. until 5:30 a.m. ET on Saturday, July 8 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.

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, July 9 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.