USPTO Systems Status and Availability

Friday Apr 05, 2019

Planned Events

TSDR Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance impacting the Trademark Status & Document Retrieval (TSDR) beginning at 12:01 a.m., Sunday, April 7 and ending at 5 a.m., Sunday, April 7 ET.

TSDR will be unavailable during the maintenance period.

PTAB E2E Maintenance

The UPSTO will perform maintenance on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board End to End (PTAB E2E) beginning at 12:01 a.m., Saturday, April 6 and ending at 5 am., Saturday, April 6 ET.       

PTAB E2E will not be available during the maintenance period.

Multiple Systems Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance affecting several systems beginning at 12:01 a.m., Sunday, April 7 and ending at 5 a.m., Sunday, April 7 ET.

The following systems and systems that interface with these systems will be unavailable during the maintenance period:

  • Migration Tool
  • Sponsorship Tool
  • Authentication with USPTO.gov account to EFS-Web and Private PAIR. Users will still be able to use their Public Key Identification (PKI) certificates to logon to Electronic Filing System - Web (EFS-Web) and Private Patent Application Information Retrieval (PAIR).

 

DOCX functionality will be unavailable. Specifically, users will be unable to file in the DOCX format or save any DOCX submissions within EFS-Web and will be unable to access the DOCX format within Private PAIR during the maintenance period. However, users will still be able to file, save, and access portable document formats (PDFs) in EFS-Web and Private PAIR. If you have questions, please contact the Patent Electronic Business Center (EBC) at (866) 217-9197 during their operating hours of 6 a.m. to midnight ET, Monday - Friday, or email ebc@uspto.gov.

SCORE Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance on the Supplemental Complex Repository for Examiners (SCORE) beginning at 12:01 a.m., Saturday, April 6 and ending at 5 a.m., Saturday, April 6 ET.

During the maintenance period supplemental content will not be available in Public and Private PAIR.