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.
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.
Patent Electronic Filing System-Web (EFS-Web) Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance on EFS-Web from 12:01 a.m. until 1 a.m. on Saturday, December 24 ET.
During this maintenance period, Fee Worksheets and Acknowledgement Receipts for submissions will not be generated.
Applicants may file submissions in EFS-Web during this time but wait until Monday for those documents to be generated. Applicants may still file submissions via Patent Center.