Planned Events
Electronic Trademark Assignments System Madrid (ETAS Madrid) Shutdown
The USPTO Certified Copy and Assignments (CC&A) Product team will shut down the ETAS Madrid services beginning on 7 p.m., Tuesday, August 29 ET.
During the maintenance period, the Madrid ETAS product will be unavailable. But the Madrid (Not a USPTO Application) Link: https://madrid.wipo.int/, online Filing will be available.
All international trademark users are submitting international Assignment request through, https://madrid.wipo.int/, for online.
USPTO Customer Contact Management System (UCCMS) Maintenance
The USPTO will perform server maintenance on USPTO Customer Contact Management System (UCCMS) from 12:01 a.m. until 5:30 a.m. on Thursday, August 31 ET.
Users should save all work and log off before the maintenance period begins.
System Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance affecting multiple systems from 12:01 a.m. until 7 a.m. on Thursday, August 31 ET.
During the maintenance period, user access to the following applications will be unavailable:
• API Key Manager
• Certified Copy Center (CCC)
• Electronic Filing System-Web (EFS-Web)
• Fee Processing (Fees)
• MyUSPTO
• Office of Enrollment and Discipline - Customer Interface (OEDCI)
• Patent Center
• Patent Trial and Appeal Case Tracking System (PTACTS)
• Private PAIR (Patent Application Information Retrieval) (P-PAIR)
• Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
• Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS-Media)
• Trademark Electronic Application System International- (TEASi)
All users should save their work and exit the system.
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.
Posted at 08:37AM Aug 29, 2023 in Planned Events |