USPTO Systems Status and Availability

Thursday Jun 30, 2016

TMOG and MyUSPTO and Financial Manager Maintenances, & MyUSPTO Password Resets

TMOG Maintenance

OCIO will perform maintenance on the Trademark Official Gazette (TMOG) beginning at midnight and ending at 5 a.m., Friday, July 1 ET.

The TMOG at the location referenced above, will be unavailable during the maintenance period.

However, the PDF version of the gazette will remain available during the maintenance period.

MyUSPTO and Financial Manager Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance impacting MyUSPTO and Financial Manager and Patent Maintenance Fees Storefront beginning at 10 p.m., Friday, July 1 and ending at 5 a.m., Saturday, July 2 ET.

MyUSPTO will remain available during the maintenance period.

However, users will not be able to create a new account or change their password until maintenance is complete.

The maintenance will also cause interruption to Financial Manager. Users should avoid adding users or modifying user permissions for stored payment methods in Financial Manager, until the maintenance is completed.

MyUSPTO Password Resets

The USPTO extended the MyUSPTO password retention policy.

If you created your uspto.gov account password before June 14, 2016, you will be asked to reset your password 60 days later. Once you reset your password, you will not be asked to again for 180 days.

Passwords created on or after June 14, 2016, will expire after 180 days.