System 411

Wednesday May 01, 2019

Planned Events

Multiple Systems Maintenance

The OCIO will be performing maintenance impacting multiple Trademark systems beginning at 12:01 a.m., Saturday, May 4 and ending at 5:30 a.m., Saturday, May 4 ET.

The following systems will not be available during the maintenance period:

  • Assignment Historical Database
  • Certified Copy Center (CCC)
  • Corporate Imaging Document Management (CIDM)
  • Corporate Database (CorpDB)
  • Electronic Trademark Assignment System (ETAS)
  • First Actions System for Trademarks 1 (FAST1)
  • First Actions System for Trademarks 2 (FAST2)
  • Office of Enrollment and Discipline Information System (OEDIS)
  • Trademark Cropped Image Manager (TCIM)
  • Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
  • Trademark Image Capture and Retrieval System (TICRS)
  • Trademark Postal System (TPOSTAL)
  • Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Information System (TTABIS)
  • Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Inquiry System (TTABVUE)
  • USPTO Customer Contact Management System (UCCMS)
  • X-Search (X-SEARCH)

 

Multiple Systems Maintenance 2

The OCIO will perform maintenance affecting several systems beginning at 12:01 a.m., Sunday, May 5 and ending at 5 a.m., Sunday, May 5 ET.

The following systems and systems that interface with these systems will be unavailable during the maintenance period:

  • Patent Center
  • Migration Tool
  • Sponsorship Tool
  • Authentication with USPTO.gov account to EFS-Web and Private PAIR. Users will still be able to use their Public Key Identification (PKI) certificates to logon to Electronic Filing System - Web (EFS-Web) and Private Patent Application Information Retrieval (PAIR).

 

DOCX functionality will be unavailable. Specifically, users will be unable to file in the DOCX format or save any DOCX submissions within EFS-Web and will be unable to access the DOCX format within Private PAIR during the maintenance period. However, users will still be able to file, save, and access portable document formats (PDFs) in EFS-Web and Private PAIR.

 

PEDS Maintenance

The OCIO will perform maintenance on the Patent Examination Data Search (PEDS) beginning at 9 p.m., Friday, May 3 and ending at 11:59 p.m.,, Friday, May 3 ET.

PEDS will not be available during the maintenance period