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 deployment period:

• Trademark Official Gazette (TMOG)
• Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Inquiry System (TTABVUE)
• Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Center (TTAB Center)
• Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA)
• Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Reading Room (TTAB Reading Room)
• Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TSDR)
• Trademark Search (TM Search)
• Trademark Center (Trademark Center)
• Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
• Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASi)
• Open Data Portal (ODP)
• MyUSPTO
• WIPO’s Madrid e-Filing system

If you do not already have a MYUSPTO account, please create one before accessing Vendor Portal, then complete MFA setup using your authenticator app. MYUSPTO accounts can be created by selecting “Login” in Vendor Portal then “Create a USPTO.gov account” on the next page. The email address used to create and register the MYUSPTO account must be the one associated with your Vendor Portal account.

For additional information and instructions, please visit the Vendor Portal information page.

During this maintenance period, the application may be temporarily unavailable or experience intermittent outages.

• 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.

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

• MyUSPTO
• Fee Processing   
• Patent Center
• Patent Trial and Appeal Case Tracking System (PTACTS)
• Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)
• Sequence Listing Information Control (SLIC)
• Trademark Center
• Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
• Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASi)
• Trademark Search
• Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Center (TTAB Center)
• Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA)
• Assignment Center
• Certified Copy Center (CCC)
• Office of Enrollment and Discipline - Customer Interface (OEDCI)
• API Key Manager
• 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:  Filing TTAB documents during an 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 this maintenance period, Patent Center will be unavailable. Please refer to our Filing Documents during an Outage page for other alternative filing methods.

During this deployment period, Patent Public Search (PPUBS) will be available.

The following manuals will be unavailable between 12:01 am – 1:30 am on Tuesday August 11.

• 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)