The USPTO will perform routine maintenance from 12 a.m.- 5 a.m. ET on Saturday, July 11.
The following manuals will be intermittently unavailable as maintenance activities are performed.
- 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)
If eMPEP/TMEP/TBMP/TFSR takes longer than usual to load after this maintenance is completed, please do the following:
- Press Ctrl + F5 to do a hard-refresh of the browser.
- If browser is still not loading please clear browser cache by doing the following.
- From Edge, go to Setting, Privacy, search and services, scroll down and Delete browsing data of 7 days or all time.
