Planned Events
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) Migration
The USPTO will perform a migration on CPC from the Production Data Center in Alexandria to a new Data Center in Manassas, from 12:01 a.m. until 4:45 a.m. on Wednesday, October 4 ET.
During the migration window, the CPC and the following systems will be impacted:
- CPC DB and Classification Allocation Tool (CAT) will be unavailable.
- The OC Issue Classification form will be impacted by this update as this form requires CPC validation services. You may continue with other OC functionalities.
- In Docket Application Viewer (DAV), CPC information will be unavailable.
- In PE2E-Search, Similarity Search will be unavailable.
Patents End-to-End Official Correspondence (PE2E-OC) Deployment
The USPTO will be deploying a new version of the IFW Backup Tool package according to the following schedule:
Patents Group 1– Beginning at 11:59 p.m., Tuesday, October 10 and ending at 5 a.m., Wednesday, October 11 LT.
Patents Group 2 – Beginning at 11:59 p.m., Wednesday, October 11 and ending at 5:30 a.m., Thursday, October 12 LT.
Patents Group 3 – Beginning at 11:59 p.m., Thursday, October 12 and ending at 5:30 a.m., Friday, August 13 LT.
Posted at 07:23AM Oct 03, 2023 in Planned Events |