USPTO Systems Status and Availability

Planned Events

TMNG Examination

The USPTO will perform maintenance on the Trademark TMNG systems beginning at 10 p.m. Saturday, November 23 and ending at 5:30 a.m., Sunday, November 24 ET.

The following systems will be impacted:

• Trademark Official Gazette (TMOG) will not be available. You can access recent PDF versions of the gazette on the Trademark Official Gazette webpage. For archived PDF versions of gazettes dating back to 2001, visit the archived editions page
• Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TSDR) will not be available.
• Trademarks Next Generation ID Manual (TMNG-IDM) will not be available.
• Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS) initial application forms will not be available.

The following systems will remain available, but links to and images derived from TSDR will be unavailable, including mark images.

• Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
• Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASi)

 

Multiple Systems Maintenance

Systems Maintenance The USPTO will perform systems maintenance beginning at 12:01 a.m., Thursday, November 21 and ending at 1 a.m., Thursday, November 21 ET.

The following systems will be unavailable during the maintenance period:

The maintenance will cause an outage to Financial Manager, an outage to Patent Maintenance Fee Storefront, and an interruption to payment processing for all USPTO storefronts. Users of the following systems should not attempt to make a payment during the maintenance period:

• Electronic Filing System (EFS-Web) for Unregistered eFilers and EFS-Web Contingency 
• Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA)   Electronic Trademark Assignment Search (ETAS)  
• Patent Maintenance Fee Storefront  
• Patent Trial and Appeal Board End to End (PTAB E2E) For Patent

Customers:

During the maintenance period, if you need to file a new patent application, you can use EFS-Web for Unregistered eFilers or EFS-Web Contingency. If you need to file a follow-on submission or pay fees, use an alternative filing or payment method.

If you have questions, please contact the Patent Electronic Business Center (EBC) at 1-866-217-9197, Monday through Friday from 6 a.m. - midnight ET, or email ebc@uspto.gov.

For PTAB Customers:

If your deadline is today for the petition filing and/or other associated documents to a pending AIA case and you cannot file electronically via the Patent Trial and Appeal Board End-to-End System (PTAB-E2E), you may use an alternative filing method. Please visit the PTAB-E2E FAQ page (https://www.uspto.gov/patents-application-process/patent-trial-and-appeal-board/ptab-e2e-frequently-asked-questions) and see A2 for information concerning your AIA petition filing and/or document filing using PTAB-E2E alternative filing methods.

If you have any questions, contact PTAB during normal business hours of 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET by telephone at 571-272-7822 or email at Trials@uspto.gov.

For Trademark Customers:

If your deadline is today and the document requiring a fee payment cannot be filed electronically, you must use an alternative method of filing. Please visit the Trademark Outage Page for information concerning Trademark alternative filing methods.

If you have any questions, contact the TEAS Team by email TEAS@uspto.gov.  

For TTAB Customers:

If your deadline is today and the document cannot be filed electronically, you must use an alternative method of filing. Please visit the TTAB Outage Page 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 between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, except federal holidays by telephone at 571-272-8500 or email TTABInfo@uspto.gov.  

DH-PTAB Retirement

The Patent Trial and Appeals Board (PTAB) API v1 will be officially retired and unavailable beginning at 10 a.m., Thursday, November 21 ET.

Please continue to use PTAB API v2 and PTAB Bulk Data available at: https://developer.uspto.gov/api-catalog/ptab-api-v2.

Please make sure to update your bookmarks and saved queries with the updated links.

Posted at 11:55AM Nov 04, 2019 in Planned Events  |