USPTO Systems Status and Availability

Thursday Oct 19, 2023

Planned Events

Patent Examination Data System (PEDS) Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance on PEDS from 12:01 a.m. until 5 a.m. on Friday, October 20 ET.

During the maintenance period, PEDS will be unavailable.

Multiple System Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance affecting multiple systems from 12:01 a.m. until 5:30 a.m. Sunday, October 22 ET.

The following systems will be unavailable during the maintenance period:

    • Patent Center

    • EFS-Web for Registered eFilers

    • Private PAIR

EFS Unregistered and EFS Contingency will be available as alternatives to electronically file patent applications. Please refer to our Filing Documents during an Outage page for other alternative filing method.