Certified Copy Center (CCC) Maintenance
The USPTO will perform routine maintenance on the CCC system to enhance TLS settings and remediate security findings from 9-10 p.m. ET on Thursday, April 4.
Some users may experience a momentary slowness in the application during this maintenance period.
Publication Site for Issued and Published Sequences Maintenance
The USPTO will perform routine maintenance on the PSIPS systems from midnight-5:30 a.m. ET on Friday, April 5.
Patent Trial and Appeal Case Tracking System (P-TACTS) Maintenance
The USPTO will perform routine maintenance on P-TACTS systems beginning at 8 p.m. ET on Friday April 5 and ending at 12 a.m. ET on Saturday, April 6.
P-TACTS will be unavailable during the maintenance period.
Users should save all work and log off their workstation before the maintenance period begins.
Parties must either pay fees for petitions outside of this scheduled maintenance time or pay early. 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 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET at 571-272-9797 weekdays or email Trials@uspto.gov.
Trademark Electronic Official Gazette (TM-Eog) Maintenance
The USPTO will perform routine patching on Linux OS for multiple servers for multiple servers related to TM-eOG from midnight-5:30 a.m. ET on Tuesday, April 9.
Global Dossier (GD) Deployment
The USPTO will perform a routine Deployment on GD to support OKTA integration from 4-6 p.m. ET on Thursday, April 4.
Trademark System Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance on Trademark systems from midnight a.m. to 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 10 ET.
The following systems will not be available:
• Trademark Official Gazette (TMOG) will not be available. You can access recent PDF versions of the gazette on the Trademark Official Gazette webpage. For archived PDF versions of gazettes dating back to 2001, visit the archived editions page.
• Trademarks ID Manual (IDM) will not be available.
• Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS) will not be available.
• Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASi) will not be available.
• Trademark Center (TM-eFile) will not be available
• TTAB Reading Room will not be available.
• Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TSDR) will not be available.
Systems Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance affecting several
systems from
midnight-9 a.m. ET on Saturday, April 13.
During the maintenance period, the following systems and systems
that interface with these systems will be unavailable:
- 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 the Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals
(ESTTA), the Electronic Trademark Assignment Search (ETAS), the Order Entry
Management System (OEMS), and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board End to End
(PTAB-E2E).
For Patent Customers:
For more information about filing documents during an outage,
please visit https://www.uspto.gov/patents-application-process/filing-online/filing-documents-during-outage.
If you have questions, please contact the EBC (Patent Electronic
Business Center) at 1-866-217-9197, Monday through Friday from 6AM - Midnight
ET, or email ebc@uspto.gov.
For 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. Please visit the alternate filing method page at https://www.uspto.gov/patents/apply/filing-online/filing-documents-during-outage#PTAB%20E2E
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. (link sends e-mail).
For 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. Please visit the Trademark Outage Page for information
concerning Trademark alternative filing methods. If you have any questions,
contact the TEAS Team by email TEAS@uspto.gov (link sends e-mail).
For TTAB Customers:
If your deadline is today and the document cannot be filed
electronically, you must use an alternative method of filing. Please visit
the 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
(link sends e-mail).