• Credit/Debit card fee payment methods cannot be accepted during the maintenance window.
• Parties must pay fees for petitions either before or after this scheduled maintenance time. Those with deadlines for petition filing or other associated documents to a pending AIA case, must use an alternate filing method.  

If you have questions, please contact PTAB from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET at 571-272-9797 weekdays or email Trials@uspto.gov.

The following manuals will be briefly unavailable. The estimated downtime will be approximately 12:01 am – 1:15 am ET on Saturday May 23.

• Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (eMPEP)
• Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure (TMEP)
• Trademark Federal Statutes and Rules (TFSR)
• Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Manual of Procedure (TBMP)

• Assignments Center
• Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA)
• Open Data Portal (ODP)
• Patent Center
• Patent Maintenance Fees Storefront
• Patent Trial and Appeal Case Tracking System (P-TACTS)

During this maintenance period, Patent Center will be unavailable. Please refer to our Filing Documents during an Outage page for other alternative filing methods.

• Credit/Debit card fee payment methods cannot be accepted during the maintenance window.
• Parties must pay fees for petitions either before or after this scheduled maintenance time. Those with deadlines for petition filing or other associated documents to a pending AIA case, must use an alternate filing method.  

Questions? Contact PTAB 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET at 571-272-9797 weekdays or email Trials@uspto.gov.
 

The following systems will be unavailable during the maintenance:

• Trademark Content Management System (TM-CMS)
• Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TM-TSDR)
• Trademark Center (TM-Center)
• Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
• Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASi)

Please refer to our Filing Documents during an Outage page for other alternative filing methods.

During the maintenance period, user access to the following applications may be interrupted:

•  API Key Manager
• Certified Copy Center (CCC)
• Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)
• Fee Processing (Fees)
• MyUSPTO 
• Office of Enrollment and Discipline - Customer Interface (OEDCI)
• Patent Center 
• Patent Trial and Appeal Case Tracking System (PTACTS)
• Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS) 
• Assignment Center
• Trademark Electronic Application System International- (TEASi) 
• Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA)
• Trademark Center
• Sequence Listing Information Control (SLIC)
• Trademark Examination (TM-EXM)
• Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Center (TTAB-Center)
• Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW)

Patent Customers: During the maintenance period, impacted applicants may refer to our Filing Documents during an Outage page for other alternative filing methods.

PTAB/P-TACTS Customers: If your deadline is today for the petition filing and/or other associated documents to a pending America Invents Act (AIA) case and you cannot file electronically via Patent Trial and Appeal Case Tracking System (P-TACTS), you may use an alternate filing method. Please visit the P-TACTS FAQ page:  https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/p-tacts_faqs_20221007.pdf and see A2 for information concerning your America Invents Act (AIA) petition filing and/or document filing using P-TACTS alternative filing methods

Trademark Customers: Please try filing again after the maintenance ends. If you have any questions, contact the TEAS Team by email at TEAS@uspto.gov .

TTAB Customers: Please visit the TTAB Outage Page:  https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/ttab/filing-ttab-documents-during-outage   for information concerning Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) alternative filing methods. If you have any questions, contact the TTAB Assistance Center during normal business hours by telephone at 571-272-8500 or email TTABInfo@uspto.gov.
 

During the maintenance period, below component services will not be available: 

• Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA)
• Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Inquiry System (TTABIS)
• Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Inquiry System (TTABVUE)
• Center- Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Center (TTAB)
• Trademark Madrid System (MADRID)

During the maintenance period, the following USPTO storefronts will be unable to accept credit/debit card payments:

• Assignment Center (IPAS)
• Certified Copy Center (CCC)
• Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA)
• Office of Enrollment and Discipline Customer Interface (OEDCI)
• Patent Center (PC)
• Patent Maintenance Fees Storefront (P-MFS)
• Patent Trial and Appeal Case Tracking System (P-TACTS)
• Trademark Center (TC)
• Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
• Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASI)
• Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Center (TTABC)

Customers with an already established USPTO Deposit Account or Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) Account may still pay using one of these payment methods during the maintenance window.

If you are unable to wait until the maintenance activity has concluded to pay a fee, the following alternative options are available:

Patent/PTAB/P-TACTS Customers: For more information about submitting alternative methods of payments during system maintenance, please visit here.
 

Trademark Customers: Filing deadlines that fall on a Saturday extend the filing deadline to the next business day. Please try filing again after the maintenance ends. If you have any questions, contact the TEAS Team by email at TEAS@uspto.gov.
 

TTAB Customers: For more information about alternative filing and different fee payment methods, please visit here. 

The following systems will be unavailable during the maintenance:

• Abstraction Layer (TM-AL)
• Trademark Content Management System (TM-CMS)
• Trademark-Examination (TM-Exam)
• Trademark Official Gazette (TMOG)
• Trademark ID Manual (TM-IDM)
• XSearch (XS)
• TRAM Replacement Services (TM-TRS)
• Trademark Examination Admin (TM-EADM)
• Trademark Examination Petitions (TM-EPET)
• Trademark Examination Special Mark Search (TM-ESMS)
• Trademark Madrid System (MADRID)
• Trademark Reviewer (TM-Review)
• Electronic System for Trademarks Trials Appeals (ESTTA)
• Trademark Trial and Appeal Board VUE (TTABVUE)
• Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Reading Room (TTAB-RR)
• Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Center (TTAB Center)
• Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TM-TSDR)
• Trademark Common Data Services (TMCOM)
• Trademark Center (TM-Center)
• Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
• Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASi)

The following systems will be available during the maintenance, but links to TM-Review will not be available:

• First Action System for Trademarks 2 (FAST2)
• Madrid Certification and Review Program (MCRP)
• Trademark Cropped Image System (TCIM)