TMOG Maintenance, Fee Processing System Outage, & 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.
Fee Processing System Outage
The USPTO will conduct maintenance on Financial Manager and Patent Maintenance Fees Storefront beginning at 12:01 a.m. and ending at 2 a.m., Friday, July 1 ET.
The maintenance will cause an outage to Financial Manager and Patent Maintenance Fee Storefront. The maintenance will also cause interruption to payment processing for users of the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS), Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASi), Electronic Trademark Assignment Search (ETAS) the Order Entry Management System (OEMS), the Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA), and the Patent Electronic Filing System (EFS-Web).
- Users attempting to pay for a trademark order via TEAS or TEASi should save their work and not try to pay during the maintenance timeframe.
- Users processing an order via OEMS should not try to pay for an order during the maintenance timeframe.
- Users processing a trademark assignment action via ETAS should not try to pay for an order during the maintenance timeframe.
- Users processing a TTAB submission online via ESTTA should not try to pay during the maintenance timeframe. 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.
- EFS-Web users may pay using the "Current USPTO Payment System" during the maintenance timeframe. See the EFS-Web Fee Payment Quick Start Guide (pdf)for more information.
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.
Posted at 12:28PM Jun 28, 2016 in Planned Events |