Multiple Planned Events
TSDR Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance affecting Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TSDR) system beginning at 10 p.m., Friday, January 26, and ending at 2 a.m., Saturday, January 27 ET.Links to TSDR will not be available from the following systems:
- Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
- Trademark Electronic Application System International
- Trademarks Electronic Official Gazette(TMOG)
- Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Viewing on the Web (TTABVUE)
- Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS)
TSDR will not be available. Please save all work prior to logging off TSDR.
OEMS Maintenance
The USPTO will perform software upgrade on the Online document Ordering System, also known as the Order Entry Management System (OEMS), beginning at 8 p.m., Friday, January 26 and ending at 2 a.m., Saturday, January 27 ET.
OEMS will be unavailable during the maintenance period.
Patent Maintenance Fees Storefront Maintenance
The USPTO will be performing maintenance activities impacting some of the services on the Patent Maintenance Fees Storefront Page beginning at 12:01 a.m., Saturday, January 27 and ending at 5 a.m., Saturday, January 27 ET.
During the maintenance period, there may be brief interruptions to Maintenance Fee lookups and/or Maintenance Fee Payments. Additionally, between 12:01 a.m. and 6 a.m. customers will not be able to upload bulk maintenance fee files.
Payment Processing Outage
Beginning at 8 p.m., Saturday, January 27 and ending at 12:01 a.m., Sunday, January 28 ET, payment processing across the USPTO storefronts will be unavailable due to maintenance.
The maintenance will cause an outage to Financial Manager, an outage to Patent Maintenance Fee Storefront, and 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 & EFS-Web Contingency)
- Patent Maintenance Fee Storefront
- Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
- Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASi)
- Electronic Trademark Assignment Search (ETAS)
- Order Entry Management System (OEMS)
- Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA)
- Patent Trial and Appeal Board End to End (PTAB E2E)
For Patent Customers:
For more information about filing documents during an outage, please visit https://www.uspto.gov/patents-application-process/filing-online/filing-documents-during-outage.
If you have questions, please contact the EBC (Patent Electronic Business Center) at 1-866-217-9197, Monday through Friday from 6 AM - Midnight ET, 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: 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 by telephone at 571-272-8500 or email: TTABInfo@uspto.gov.
Systems Maintenance- Time Update
The USPTO will perform maintenance affecting several systems beginning at 9 p.m., Sunday, January 28 and ending at 5 a.m., Monday, January 29 ET. The following systems and systems that interface with these systems will be unavailable during the maintenance period:
- Electronic Freedom of Information Act (eFOIA)
- Electronic Filing System Web (EFS-Web & EFS-Web Contingency)
- Office of Enrollment and Discipline Roster of Patent Attorneys/Agents (OEDCI)
- Private Patent Application Information Retrieval (Private PAIR)
- Public Patent Application Information Retrieval (Public PAIR)
- Publication Site for Issued and Published Sequences (PSIPS)
- Financial Manager and Patent Maintenance Fees Storefront
- Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
- Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASi)
- Trademark Official Gazette (TMOG)
- Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS)
The maintenance will also cause interruptions to payment processing for users of the Electronic Trademark Assignment Search (ETAS), the Order Entry Management System (OEMS), the Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA), and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board End to End (PTAB-E2E).
For Patent Customers:
For more information about filing documents during an outage, please visit https://www.uspto.gov/patents-application-process/filing-online/filing-documents-during-outage.
If you have questions, please contact the EBC (Patent Electronic Business Center) at 1-866-217-9197, Monday through Friday from 6 AM - Midnight ET, 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: 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 by telephone at 571-272-8500 or email: TTABInfo@uspto.gov.
Multiple Systems Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance on multiple systems beginning at 12:01 a.m., Saturday, January 27 and ending at 5 a.m., Saturday, January 27 ET.
Customers may experience brief interruptions during the maintenance window. We do not expect extended outages.
The systems listed below may be impacted by brief interruptions, hung processes, or a short unanticipated outage.
- Electronic Filing System (EFS-Web)
- Electronic Filing System and Contingency (EFS-Web and EFS-Web Contingency)
- Electronic Freedom of Information Act (E-FOIA)
- Electronic Patent Assignment System (ePAS)
- Global Dossier (GD)
- Office of Enrollment and Discipline Information System (OEDIS)
- One Portfolio Dossier (OPD)
- Order Entry Management System (OEMS)
- Patent Maintenance Fees Storefront
- Patent Review Process System (PRPS)
- Private Patent Application Information Retrieval (Private PAIR)
- Public Patent Application Information Retrieval (Public PAIR)
- Patent Trial and Appeal Board End-to-End (PTAB-2E)
Private PAIR
Users who make updates using Private PAIR will not be able to review the updates until after the maintenance is complete.
EFS-Web Applicants
During the maintenance period, if you are unable to file patent applications or submissions, please use an alternative filing method.
If you have questions, please contact the EBC (Patent Electronic Business Center) at 1-866-217-9197, Monday through Friday from 6 a.m. - midnight ET, or email ebc@uspto.gov.
MyUSPTO.gov and Fee Processing Maintenance
The USPTO will perform systems maintenance beginning at 8 p.m., Saturday, January 27 and ending at 11:59 p.m., Saturday, January 27 ET.
The my.uspto.gov website will be unavailable during the maintenance period.
The maintenance will cause an outage to Financial Manager, an outage to Patent Maintenance Fee Storefront, and 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 & EFS-Web Contingency)
- Patent Maintenance Fee Storefront
- Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
- Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASi)
- Electronic Trademark Assignment Search (ETAS)
- Order Entry Management System (OEMS)
- Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA)
- Patent Trial and Appeal Board End to End (PTAB E2E)
Posted at 05:23AM Jan 22, 2018 in Planned Events |