Planned Events
System Maintenance
The USPTO will perform system maintenance from 12 a.m. until 5:30 a.m. on Thursday, July 20 ET.
The following systems will be unavailable:
• API Key Manager
• EFS Web (Electronic Filing System-Web)
• Fee Payment Processing
• 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. Due to the maintenance impacting fee payment, non-registered efilers are reminded to submit the payment via the PTO Central Fax # at 571-273-8300 to avoid incurring the surcharge fee for not paying on the same date as the filing. 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.
Multiple System Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance affecting multiple systems from 12:01 a.m. until 5:30 a.m. on Friday, July 21 ET.
During this maintenance period, availability of Supplemental Content data for new applications and follow-ons filed will be delayed in Patent Center and Private Patent Application Information Retrieval (Private PAIR).
Please check Patent Center or Private PAIR after the maintenance period for confirmation of availability of the Supplemental Content Data. If you have questions, please contact the Patent Electronic Business Center (EBC) at (866) 217-9197 during their operating hours of 6 a.m. to midnight, Monday - Friday ET, or email ebc@uspto.gov.
Trademark ID Manual (TM-IDM) Migration
The USPTO will perform a migration on TM-IDM to Rocky Linux beginning at 10 p.m., Saturday, July 22 and ending at 2 a.m., Sunday, July 23 ET.
Posted at 07:29AM Jul 18, 2023 in Planned Events |