The USPTO will perform routine maintenance affecting several systems from midnight-9 a.m. ET on Saturday, October 26.
The following systems and systems that interface with these systems will be unavailable during the maintenance period:
- Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA)
- Office of Enrollment and Discipline Roster of Patent Attorneys/Agents (OEDCI)
- Patent Center and Sponsorship tool
- Patent Trial and Appeal Tracking System (P-TACTS)
- Publication Site for Issued and Published Sequences (PSIPS)
- Financial Manager and Patent Maintenance Fees Storefront
- Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
- Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASi)
- Trademark Official Gazette (TMOG)
- Trademark Trial and Appeal Board VUE (TTABVUE)
The maintenance will also cause interruptions to payment processing for users of:
- ESTTA
- Electronic Trademark Assignment Search (ETAS)
- Order Entry Management System (OEMS)
- Patent Trial and Appeal Board End to End (PTAB-E2E)
Patent customers:
Learn more about filing documents during an outage.
If you have questions, please contact the EBC (Patent Electronic Business Center) at 1-866-217-9197, Monday through Friday from 6 a.m. - midnight ET, or email ebc@uspto.gov.
P-TACTS customers:
If your deadline is today for the petition filing and/or other associated documents to a pending AIA case and you cannot file electronically via the Patent Trial and Appeal Tracking System (P-TACTS), you may use an alternative filing method. You can visit our alternate filing method page for information concerning your AIA petition filing and/or document filing using P-TACTS alternative filing methods.
If you have any questions, contact P-TACTS during normal business hours of 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET by telephone at 571-272-9797 or email Trials@uspto.gov.
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. You can visit our Trademarks outage page for information concerning Trademarks alternative filing methods.
If you have any questions, contact the TEAS Team by email TEAS@uspto.gov.
TTAB customers:
If your deadline is today and the document cannot be filed electronically, you must use an alternative method of filing. You can visit our TTAB outage page 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.