USPTO Systems Status and Availability

Saturday Mar 16, 2013

TEASi, PATFT & APPFT, and EFS-Web Maintenance

TEASi Maintenance

The Madrid Protocol filing system, Trademark Electronic Application System (TEASi), will be unavailable beginning at 8 a.m. and ending at 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 16 for system maintenance. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Please send any questions to TEAS@uspto.gov.

PATFT and APPFT Maintenance

USPTO will perform maintenance on  the Patent Full Text Search (PATFT & APPFT) beginning at 10 p.m. on Sunday, March 17 and ending at 2 a.m. on Monday, March 18. PATFT and APPFT will be unavailable during the maintenance.

Starting on March 18, Public users will be able to view and search applicant data such as name, city, state, country, and authority type. Users will also be able to view and search documents by;

  • Foreign/domestic priority date
  • PCT Filing Date
  • PCT 371c 124 Date
  • Related Application Filing Date
  • Prior Published Document Date
  • Reissued Patent Application Filing Date

EFS-Web Maintenance

USPTO will perform maintenance on the Electronic Filing System (EFS-Web) beginning at 12:01 a.m. and ending at 5 a.m. on Tuesday, March 19. EFS-Web and EFS-Web Contingency will be unavailable during the maintenance.