Systems, Assignment Search, and Pay.gov Maintenances
Systems Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance on Order Entry Management System (OEMS) beginning at midnight and ending at 5 a.m., Friday, August 26 ET.
The OEMS on-line order processing system will be unavailable during the maintenance period.
The following systems may also become unavailable during the maintenance period:
- Public Patent Application Information Retrieval (Public PAIR)
- Private Patent Application Information Retrieval (Private PAIR)
- Patent Full Text on the Web (PATFT)
- Application Full Text (APPFT)
Systems Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance on the following systems beginning at midnight and ending at 8:30 a.m., Saturday, August 27 ET.
During the maintenance period the following systems will be unavailable.
- Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
- Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASi)
Assignment Search Maintenance
USPTO will perform maintenance on the Assignment Search (AS) system beginning at 12:01 a.m. and ending at 2 a.m., Saturday, August 27 ET.
The AS system will be unavailable during the maintenance period.
Pay.gov Maintenance
Pay.gov will undergo maintenance beginning at noon and ending at 3 p.m., Saturday, August 27 ET.
All USPTO storefronts are expected to remain available. However, credit/debit card payment processing through all USPTO storefronts will be unavailable during the maintenance period. Please submit payment using alternative payment method, such as:
For Patents Customers:
- by paying online with an established deposit account or EFT account via EFS-Web and the Patent Maintenance Fees Storefront.
- by attaching a fee transmittal form (e.g., PTO/SB/17) with deposit account authorization in EFS-Web.
- by faxing in a credit card authorization form PTO-2038 to the USPTO Central Fax 571-273-8300.
- or by sending in a credit card authorization form PTO-2038 through Priority Mail Express(formerly Express Mail) from the United States Postal Services (USPS) in accordance with 37 CFR 1.10.
Facsimile submission of the basic national fee for national stage under 35 U.S.C. 371 is not accepted. Submissions that require successful online payment, such as ePetitions and Pre-grant publication submissions, will be unavailable during the maintenance period.
If you have any questions, contact the Patent EBC by phone at 866-217-9197 or by email at ebc@uspto.gov.
For Trademarks 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 Outage Page for information concerning Trademark alternative filing methods.
If you have any specific questions regarding TEAS/TEASi, contact the TEAS Team by email at TEAS@uspto.gov (link sends e-mail).
All customers with an established deposit account or EFT account will still be able to pay the required fees via those accounts. In addition, forms that do not require a fee payment can still be filed.
For TTAB Customers:
If your deadline is today and a document requiring a fee payment cannot be filed electronically prior to midnight, you must submit your filing by mail. This outage does not impact ESTTA forms that do not require a filing fee. Oppositions or extensions of time to oppose § 66(a) applications must be filed electronically.
Posted at 10:30AM Aug 25, 2016 in Planned Events |