USPTO Systems Status and Availability

Wednesday Aug 13, 2014

PRPS, TESS, System, and TEAS/TEASi Maintenances

PRPS Maintenance

USPTO will perform maintenance on the Patent Review Processing System (PRPS) beginning at 1 a.m. and ending at 8 a.m., Saturday, August 16 EDT.

PRPS will be unavailable during the maintenance period.

TESS Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance on the Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS) beginning at 12:01 a.m. and ending at 5 a.m., Sunday, August 17, EDT.

TESS will be unavailable during the maintenance period.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

System Maintenance

USPTO will perform system maintenance affecting all Online Business Systems beginning at 11:30 p.m., Sunday, August 17 and ending at 3 a.m., Monday, August 18 EDT.

All Online Business Systems may experience intermittent service interruptions during the maintenance period.

TEAS/TEASi Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance on Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS) and Trademark Electronic Application Submission International (TEASi) beginning at 8 a.m. and ending at 4 p.m., Saturday, August 23 EDT.

TEAS and TEASi will be unavailable during the maintenance period.

Because portable and e-signature forms may take up to 14 days to process, it is important that you be aware of this scheduled outage so that you can plan ahead to avoid additional work. Our recommendation is that you file all recently created portable and e-signature forms by August 22, 2014. Customers unable to do so will be required to start the process again with updated forms.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.