USPTO Systems Status and Availability

Wednesday Dec 04, 2019

Planned Events

Open Data - Patent Assignment Search and Trademark Assignment Search Maintenance

The USPTO will be performing maintenance on Open Data - Patent Assignment Search and Trademark Assignment Search beginning at 12 a.m., Wednesday, December 4 and ending at 3 a.m., Wednesday, December 4 ET.

Open Data - Patent Assignment Search (https://assignment.uspto.gov/patent/index.html#/patent/search) and Trademark Assignment Search (https://assignment.uspto.gov/trademark/index.html#/trademark/search) will be unavailable during this maintenance period.

TSDR Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance affecting Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TSDR) beginning at 10 p.m., Saturday, December 7 and ending at 5 a.m., Sunday, December 8 ET.

TSDR will not be available during the maintenance. In addition, the following applications will have limited functionality.

  • Madrid
  • AOTW
  • MyUSPTO
  • TMNG-MobileApps
  • Certified Copy Center (CCC)

Links to TSDR will not be available from the following systems:

  • Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
  • Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASi)
  • Trademarks Electronic Official Gazette (TMOG)
  • Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Viewing on the Web (TTABVUE)
  • Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS)

PTAB Maintenance

The USPTO will perform API gateway patching and upgrade to the Patent Trial Appeal Board End-To-End (PTAB E2E) beginning at 12 a.m., Saturday, December 7 and ending at 5 a.m., Saturday, December 7 ET.

During the maintenance period, PTAB E2E will be unavailable.

Multiple System Maintenance

Systems Maintenance The USPTO will perform systems maintenance beginning at 12:01 a.m., Saturday, December 7 and ending at 1 a.m., Saturday, December 7 ET.

The following systems should be accessible, but may be unavailable:

  • my.uspto.gov website
  • Certified Copy Center (CCC)
  • Electronic Filing System (EFS-Web) for Registered eFilers
  • Private PAIR
  • Patent Practitioner Support Sponsorship Tool
  • Trademark Next Generation ID Manual (TMNG-IDM)
  • Trademark Next Generation Official Gazette (TMOG)
  • Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
  • Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASi)

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.

Please contact the EBC if you have any questions at 866-217-9197 between 6 a.m. and midnight ET, Monday through Friday, 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 .