System 411

Friday Oct 30, 2020

Planned Events

Multiple System Maintenance

The OCIO will be performing routine maintenance beginning at 12:01 a.m., Sunday, November 1 and ending at 9 a.m., Sunday, November 1 ET.

There will be a 9 hour maintenance window, in which we expect one service interruption for 2 hours between midnight and 5 a.m. During the remainder of the maintenance, there may be brief interruptions for some services.

Users should retry if an operation is interrupted or does not appear to have been completed.

The following systems will be impacted:

  • Adjudicated Case Tracking System (ACTS)
  • Assignments Historical Database (AHD)
  • Assignments on the Web (AOTW)
  • Application Routing Tool (ART) and Automated Classification Evaluator (ART-ACE)
  • Certified Copy Center (CCC)
  • Classification Data System (CDS)
  • Central Enterprise Data Repository (CEDR)
  • Central Enterprise Data Repository Infrastructure (CEDR-INFRA)
  • Data Export
  • Docket and Application Viewer (DAV)
  • Electronic Business Center Imaging System (EBCIS)
  • Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW)
  • Electronic Freedom of Information Act (E-FOIA)
  • Electronic Filing System- Web (EFS-WEB)
  • Electronic Patent Assignment System (EPAS)
  • File Inspection Utility (FIU)
  • Fee Processing Next Generation (FPNG)
  • File Tracking System (FTS)
  • Integrated Quality System (IQS)
  • MyUSPTO
  • Official Correspondence (OC)
  • Order Entry Management System (OEMS)
  • One Portal Dossier (OPD)
  • OPSG (includes NextGen PreExam, PCT OPS)
  • Notice of Suit Processing System (NOSPS)
  • Patent Application Location and Monitoring - Service Getaway (PALM-SG)
  • Patent Center
  • Patent Application Services and Security (PASS)
  • Patent Enterprise Access Integration- Trilateral Dossier Access (PEAI-TDA)
  • Patent Linguistic Utility Search (PLUS)
  • Patent Global Dossier Public Access Dossier (P-GD-PAD)
  • Patent and Trial Appeal Board End-to-End (P-TAB E2E)
  • Patent and Trademark Assignment System (PTAS)
  • Patent Transfer Inquiry (PTI)
  • Services - Document Wrapper for Patents (S-DWP)
  • Sequence Listing Information Control (SLIC)
  • Warehouse File Tracking System (WFTS)
  • Private Patent Application Information Retrieval (Private PAIR)
  • Patent Application Services and Security (PASS)
  • Public Patent Application Information Retrieval (Public PAIR)


In addition, maintenance for PCAPS-IP systems will also occur from 12:01 a.m. to 6 a.m.

There will be a complete outage for the following systems:

  • Patent Application Location and Monitoring - Infrastructure (PALM-INFRA)
  • Central Enterprise Data Repository Infrastructure (CEDR-INFRA)