TMOG, System, and Pay.gov Maintenance
TMOG Maintenance
USPTO will perform maintenance on the Trademark Official Gazette (TMOG), available at http://tmog.uspto.gov, beginning at 10 p.m., Friday, October 31 and ending at 11:59 p.m., Saturday, November 1 EDT.
The TMOG at the location referenced above will not be available during the maintenance period.
However, the PDF version of the gazette, located at http://www.uspto.gov/news/og/trademark_og/index.jsp will remain available during the maintenance period.
System Maintenance
USPTO will perform system maintenance beginning at 12:01 a.m. and ending at 6 a.m., Sunday, November 2 EDT/EST.
Electronic Filing System (EFS Web) and Electronic Filing System (EFS Web) Contingency will be unavailable during the maintenance period.
Pay.gov Maintenance
Pay.gov will undergo maintenance beginning at 2 a.m. and ending at 4 a.m., Sunday, November 2 EST.
The USPTO storefronts will be unavailable for credit/debit card payment processing during the maintenance period. Please submit payment using an alternative payment method, such as:
Patents
- by attaching a fee transmittal form (e.g., PTO/SB/17) with deposit account authorization in EFS-Web;
- by faxing in a credit card authorization form PTO-2038 to the USPTO Central Fax 571-273-8300;
- or by sending in a credit card authorization form PTO-2038 through Priority Mail Express(formerly Express Mail) from the United States Postal Services (USPS) in accordance with 37 CFR 1.10.
Facsimile submission of the basic national fee for national stage under 35 U.S.C. 371 is not accepted. Submissions that require successful online payment, such as ePetitions and Pre-grant publication submissions, are unavailable at this time.
If you have any questions, contact the Patent EBC by phone at 866-217-9197 or by email at ebc@uspto.gov
Trademarks
Customers with an established deposit account or EFT account are still able to pay the required fees via those accounts. In addition, forms that do not require a fee payment can still be filed.
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 TEAS Outage page for information concerning Trademark alternative filing methods.
If you have any questions, contact the TEAS Team by email at TEAS@uspto.gov.
Posted at 01:00AM Oct 31, 2014 in Planned Events |