Planned Events
Trademark System Maintenance
The USPTO will perform routine maintenance on the Trademark System from 12:01 a.m. until 5:30 a.m. on Friday, February 16 ET.
During the maintenance period, the following systems will remain available, but mark images and documents will be unavailable:
• Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
• Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASi)
• Trademark e0G (TM-eOG)
• Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TSDR)
During the maintenance period, the following systems will be unavailable:
• TM-eFile
• Trademark Trial and Appeals - Reading Room (TTAB-RR)
Certified Copy Center (CCC) Maintenance
The USPTO will perform a routine maintenance on the CCC system to migrate to the Rocky Operating System from 9 p.m. until 9:59 p.m. on Thursday, February 15 ET.
Users will not be able to log in during this maintenance.
Before the maintenance period begins, users should save all work and log off.
Publication Site for Issued and Published Sequences (PSIPS) Maintenance
The USPTO will perform routine maintenance on PSIPS from 12 a.m. until 5 a.m. on Saturday, February 17 ET.
This maintenance is to support the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) cutover from RHEL to Rocky Linux.
Content Management System (CMS) Maintenance
The USPTO will perform routine system maintenance for CMS from 12:01 a.m. until 5 a.m. on Sunday, February 18 ET.
During the maintenance period, users may not be able to submit, view, download or update Patent documents using the below systems:
• Sequence Listing Information Control (SLIC)
• Docket and Application Viewer (DAV)
• Official Correspondence (OC)
• Patent Application Locating and Monitoring Patent Cooperation Treaty Operations (PCT-OPS)
• Patent Application Services and Security (PASS)
• Event-Hub
• Office Action Conversion to XML4IP 3.0 (OA2XML)
• Patent Trial and Appeal Case Tracking System (P-TACTS)
• Certified Copy Center (CCC)
Patent Center: Previously submitted documents will not be available at the Patent Center's Documents and Transactions tab during the maintenance period. New documents submitted via Patent Center during the maintenance period will experience longer than expected delays in becoming available in the Patent Center's Documents and Transactions tab. Customers should check back on afternoon of Sunday, February 18 to see if the impacted submissions are available at Patent Center.
Patent Trial and Appeal Case Tracking System (P-TACTS) Maintenance
The USPTO will perform routine maintenance on P-TACTS systems from 12:01 a.m. until 2 a.m. on Saturday, February 17 ET.
P-TACTS will be unavailable during the maintenance period.
Users should save all work and log off their workstation 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.
Posted at 08:05AM Feb 15, 2024 in Planned Events |