USPTO Systems Status and Availability

Wednesday Feb 03, 2016

Public and Private PAIR are Now Available, and Ongoing EFS-Web Issues

Public and Private PAIR are Now Available

The Public and Private Patent Application Information Retrieval (Public and Private PAIR) service issue reported yesterday has been resolved.

Private and Public PAIR are now back to being fully available.

Follow-on Access Issues Resolved

All EFS-Web applications filed on January 5, as well as on January 13 and 14, can now be viewed in Private PAIR and follow-on submissions can be submitted in EFS-Web.

Please verify your application and if you have any questions, contact the Patent Electronic Business Center (EBC) at 866-217-9197 (toll-free) or 571-272-4100.

Ongoing EFS-Web Issue

EFS-Web Acknowledgement Receipt (N417) and Fee Transmittal (WFEE): Some EFS-Web submissions filed on Dec 22 and Dec 27 did not receive an acknowledgement receipt (N417) and correct fee transmittal (WFEE).

Technical teams are aware of this problem and are actively working to resolve it. We apologize for any inconvenience.