Planned Events
Integrated Quality System (IQS) Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance on the IQS systems from 12:01 a.m. until 5:30 a.m. on Thursday, August 3 ET.
During the maintenance period, IQS will be unavailable.
Patent Office Action to XML (P-OA2XML) Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance on the P-OA2XML systems from 12:01 a.m. until 5:30 a.m. on Thursday, August 3 ET.
During the maintenance period, DOCX and XML downloads will be unavailable in Private PAIR and Patent Center.
Production Data Center Migration
The USPTO will perform a migration on multiple products from the Production Data Center in Alexandria to a new Data Center in Manassas, from 12:01 a.m. until 5 a.m. on Thursday, August 3 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.
Multiple Systems Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance affecting multiple systems perform maintenance affecting multiple systems from 12:01 a.m. until at 5:30 a.m. on Thursday, August 3 ET.
During the maintenance period, user access to the following applications may be unavailable:
• API Key Manager
• EFS Web (Electronic Filing System-Web)
• Fee Processing
• MyUSPTO
• Certified Copy Center (CCC)
• Office of Enrollment and Discipline - Customer Interface (OEDIS - CI)
• Patent Center
• Patent Center Support
• Patent Trial and Appeal Board End to End (PTAB E2E)
• PE2E Sequence Listing Access (SLIC) - PE2E Bio-Sequence
• Private PAIR (Patent Application Information Retrieval)
• TM Document Management
• Trademark Admin (TM-ADMIN)
• Trademark Electronic Application System International- (TEASi)
• Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
• Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS-Media)
• Trademark – eOG (TM- eOG)
• Trademark - Exam (TM Exam)
• Trademark - Exam/Content
• Trademark ID Manual (TM- IDM)
• Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TSDR) – API
Patent Customers:
During the maintenance period, if you need to file a new patent application, you can use EFS-Web for Unregistered eFilers or EFS-Web Contingency. If you need to file a follow-on submission or pay fees, use an alternative filing or payment method. If you have questions, please contact the Patent Electronic Business Center (EBC) at 1-866-217-9197, Monday through Friday from 6:00 a.m. - midnight ET, or email ebc@uspto.gov.
PTAB 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 Board End-to-End System (PTAB-E2E), you may use an alternative filing method. Please visit the PTAB-E2E FAQ Page and see A2 for information concerning your AIA petition filing and/or document filing using PTAB-E2E alternative filing methods. If you have any questions, contact PTAB during normal business hours of 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET by telephone at 571-272-7822 or email at 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 alternate method of filling. 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 method. 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 between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, except federal holidays by telephone at 571-272-8500 or email TTABInfo@uspto.gov.
Multiple System Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance affecting multiple systems multiple systems from 12:01 a.m. until 5:30 a.m. on Saturday, August 5 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.
Services - Document Wrapper for Patents (S-DWP) Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance on S-DWP for two consecutive nights. The dates are as follows:
• The first night of maintenance will be from 12:01 a.m. until 5:30 a.m. on Saturday, August 5 ET.
• The second night of maintenance will be from 12:01 a.m. until 5:30 a.m. on Sunday, August 6 ET.
S-DWP will be available during the maintenance period; however, some operations may be briefly interrupted or delayed.
Patents-Electronic Library for Patent (P-ELP) Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance on P-ELP for two consecutive nights. The dates are as follows:
• The beginning night of maintenance will begin at 12:01 a.m., Saturday, August 5 and end at 5:30 a.m., Saturday, August 5 ET.
• The final night of maintenance will begin at 12:01 a.m., Sunday, August 6 and end at 5:30 a.m., Sunday, August 6 ET.
P-ELP will be available during the maintenance period; however, some operations may be briefly interrupted or delayed.
Patent Center users should retry if an operation is interrupted or does not appear to have been completed.
Patent Trial and Appeal Case Tracking System (P-TACTS) Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance on (P-TACTS) systems for two consecutive nights.
• The first night of maintenance will occur from 12:01 a.m. until 5:30 a.m. on Saturday, August 5 ET.
• The final night of maintenance will occur from 12:01 a.m. until 5:30 a.m. on Sunday, Saturday, August 6 ET.
P-TACTS will be unavailable during the maintenance period.
Users should save all work and log off before the maintenance period begins.
Parties must either pay fees for petitions outside of this scheduled maintenance time or pay early. Those with deadlines for petition filing or other associated documents to a pending AIA case, must use an alternate filing method.
If you have questions, please contact PTAB 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET at 571-272-9797 weekdays or email Trials@uspto.gov.
Multiple System Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance on the Patent Global Dossier Public Access Dossier (P-GD-PAD) and One Portal Dossier (OPD) system beginning at 12:01 a.m., Sunday, August 6 and ending at 5:30 a.m., Sunday, August 6 ET.
During the maintenance period, the application may be unavailable.
Assignments on the Web (AOTW), Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TSDR), and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board VUE (TTABVUE) Maintenance
The USPTO Certified Copy and Assignments (CC&A) Product team will perform maintenance on the AHD and AOTW systems from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Saturday, August 5 ET.
During the maintenance period, AOTW, TSDR and TTABVUE products will be unavailable. Additionally, TTABVUE and TSDR services using AOTW will be unavailable.
Posted at 08:10AM Aug 02, 2023 in Planned Events |