Trademark System Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance on Trademark systems from 12 a.m. until 5:30 a.m. on Thursday, January 5 ET.
The following systems will be impacted:
• Trademarks ID Manual (IDM) will not be available.
• Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS) initial application forms will not be available.
• TTAB Reading Room will not be available.
• Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TSDR) will be unavailable.
The following systems will remain available, but links to and images derived from TSDR will be unavailable, including mark images.
• Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
• Trademark Electronic Application System International (TEASi)
Office of Enrollment Discipline Information System (OEDIS) Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance on the OEDIS beginning at 8 p.m. until 9 p.m. on Friday, January 6 ET.
The following systems will be unavailable during the maintenance period:
• Patent Practitioner Search
• Registered Practitioner Portal
• Exam Applicant Portal
Fee
Processing Next Generation (FPNG) Credit Card Payment Maintenance
Due
to USPTO maintenance activities, credit/debit card payments will not be
accepted from 6 p.m. until 10 p.m. on Saturday, January 7 ET.
During
the maintenance period, the following USPTO storefronts will be unable to
accept credit/debit card payments:
- Electronic Filing System-Web (EFS-Web)
- Electronic Filing System-Web Contingency (EFS-Web
Contingency)
- Patent Center
- Patent Trial and Appeal Case Tracking System (P-TACTS)
- Patent Maintenance Fees Storefront (FPNG)
- Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
- Trademark Electronic Application System International
(TEASI)
- Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA)
- Electronic Trademark Assignment Search (ETAS)
- Office of Enrollment and Discipline Customer Interface
(OEDCI)
- Certified Copy Center (CCC)
Customers
with an already established USPTO Deposit Account or Electronic Funds Transfer
(EFT) Account may still pay using one of these payment methods during
the maintenance window.
If
you are unable to wait until the maintenance activity has concluded to pay
a fee, the following alternative options are available:
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 require assistance with the online fee payment
management system, please contact the USPTO Contact Center via the following
telephone numbers:
- 800-786-9199 (toll-free)
- 571-272-1000 (local)
- 800-877-8339 (TTY)
Support for the online fee payment management system, and
USPTO.gov accounts, is available Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.
ET (except federal holidays).
PTACTS
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.
Systems Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance affecting several systems beginning at 12:01 a.m., Saturday, January 7 and ending at 9 a.m. Saturday, January 7 ET.
The following systems and systems that interface with these systems will be unavailable during the maintenance period:
• Electronic Filing System Web (EFS-Web & EFS-Web Contingency)
• 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)
• Private Patent Application Information Retrieval (Private PAIR)
• Public Patent Application Information Retrieval (Public PAIR)
• 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 Electronic Search System (TESS)
• 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).
Patent Customers:
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.
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 P-TACTS FAQ page (
https://www.uspto.gov/patents-application-process/patent-trial-and-appeal-board/ptab-e2e-frequently-asked-questions) and see A2 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 571-272-7822 or email at
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. 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.
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.
Patent Electronic Filing System-Web (EFS-Web) Maintenance
The USPTO will perform maintenance on EFS-Web from 8 p.m. until 10 p.m. on Sunday, January 8 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.
