Patent
Global Dossier (GD) Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance on the Global Dossier system beginning at 10 p.m., Tuesday, December 20 and
ending at 2 a.m., Wednesday, December 21 ET.
During the maintenance period, P-GD-PAD and One Portal
Dossier (OPD) users may experience temporary disruption of service.
Bulk Data Storage System (BDSS) Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance on the BDSS from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Wednesday, December 21 ET.
During the maintenance period, BDSS will be unavailable.
Office of Enrollment Discipline Information System (OEDIS) Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance on the OEDIS from 12:01 a.m. until 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday, December 21 ET.
During the maintenance period, OEDIS will be unavailable.
Multiple Systems
Maintenance
The USPTO will be performing maintenance from 12:01 a.m. until 2 a.m. on Wednesday,
December 21 ET.
External users will not be
able to access any Okta protected endpoints.
During this
time, the following systems will be unavailable:
- API Key Manager
- EFS Web (Electronic Filing System-Web)
- Fee Payment Processing (FPNG)
- MyUSPTO
- Certified Copy Center (CCC)
- Office of Enrollment and Discipline - Customer Interface (OEDIS -
CI) - Patent Center (eMOD)
- Private PAIR (Patent Application Information Retrieval )
- Patent Trial and Appeal Case Tracking System (PTACTS)
- Trademark Electronic Application System - (TEASi)
- Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
- Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS-Media)
- Trademark Status Document Retrieval (TSDR) API
- Trademark- eOG(TM- eOG)
- Trademark Admin (TM-ADMIN)
- Trademark ID Manual (TM- IDM)
Patent
Customers:
During the
maintenance period, applicants may file new applications, except for National
Stage applications under 35 U.S.C. 371, via EFS-Web Unregistered.
If you need
to file a National Stage application under 35 U.S.C. 371 or follow-on
submission to an existing application during the maintenance period, please use
the alternative filing method.
PTAB
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 the Patent Trial and Appeal Board End-to-End (PTAB-E2E)
System, you may use an alternative filing method. Please visit the PTAB-E2E FAQ
page: https://www.uspto.gov/patents/ptab/ptab-e2e-frequently-asked-questions and
see A2 for information concerning your America Invents Act (AIA) petition
filing and/or document filing using PTAB-E2E alternative filing methods. If you
have any questions, contact PTAB during normal business hours of 8:30 a.m. to 5
p.m., ET by telephone at 571-272-7822 or email at Trials@uspto.gov.
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: 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.
Patent Examination Data System (PEDS) Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance on the PEDS system from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Thursday, December 22 ET.
During the maintenance period, users may not experience any disruption of service. However, the public browser users will be required to refresh their browsers to get the latest changes in PEDS user interface.