TMOG, TSDR, and TIDM Maintenance & Fee Processing System Outage
TMOG, TSDR, and TIDM Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance on the Trademark Next Generation Official Gazette (TMNG OG), Trademark System Status and Document Retrieval (TSDR), and Trademark Identification Manual for Acceptable Goods and Services (TIDM) beginning at 10 p.m., Saturday, August 27 and ending at 5 p.m., Sunday, August 28 ET.
The TMOG , TSDR, and TIDM will be unavailable during the maintenance period. However, the PDF version of the gazette will be available during the maintenance period as well as the legacy version of the ID Manual. The maintenance will also prevent use of the TEAS initial application forms.The following systems will remain available during the TSDR maintenance, but links to and images derived from TSDR will be unavailable, including mark images.
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 6 a.m., Wednesday, August 31 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), the Patent Electronic Filing System (EFS-Web) and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board End to End (PTAB E2E).
EFS-Web Customers:
EFS-Web users may pay using the “Current USPTO Payment System” during the maintenance timeframe. See EFS-Web Fee Payment Quick Start Guide (pdf) for more info.
If you have any questions, contact the Patent EBC by phone at 866-217-9197 or by email at ebc@uspto.gov.
TTAB Customers:
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.
For Trademark Customers:
If your deadline is today and the document requiring a fee payment cannot be filed electronically, you must use an alternative method of filing. For additional information on filing during system outages, see the Trademark alternative filing methods webpage. If you have any questions regarding alternative filing methods for TEAS/TEASi, please contact TEAS@uspto.gov.
Posted at 04:30AM Aug 27, 2016 in Planned Events |