PubEAST and PubWEST and System Maintenances
PubEAST and PubWEST Maintenance
OCIO will perform maintenance affecting Public Examiner's Automated Search Tool (PubEAST) and Public Web-Based Examiner's Search Tool (PubWEST) beginning at 8 p.m. and ending at 9 p.m., Friday, November 14.
This maintenance will enable several new features:
- Family ID-based filtering will be enabled, expanding an examiner's filtering choices to No Filtering, Application Number-based filtering and Family ID-based filtering.
- The Foreign Patent Retrieval (FPRS) database as a searchable database within PubWEST at the Public Search Facility (PSF). Currently FPRS is only available through PubEAST.
PubEAST and PubWEST will be unavailable during the maintenance period.
System Maintenance
USPTO will perform maintenance affecting several systems beginning at 12:01 a.m. and ending at 3 a.m., Saturday, November 15 EST.
The following systems may be unavailable during the maintenance period:
- Electronic Patent Assignment System 1.9 (EPAS)
- Assignments On the Web 2.5 (AOTW)
Assignment data will be unavailable in the following systems during the maintenance period:
- Trademark Status Document Retrieval (TSDR)
- Private Patent Application Information Retrieval (Private PAIR)
Posted at 10:55AM Nov 12, 2014 in Planned Events |