USPTO Systems Status and Availability

Monday Apr 24, 2017

PIW Maintenance

PIW Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance on the Patent Images on the Web (PIW) beginning at 10 a.m., Wednesday, April 26 and ending at 2 p.m., Wednesday, April 26 ET.
 
During the maintenance period, PIW will be unavailable. Additionally, images which draw from PIW will not be available in the Patent Full-Text Database (PatFT) or the Public Patent Application Information Retrieval (Public PAIR) system.