One or more systems affected by planned maintenance

Multiple System Maintenance

The USPTO will perform maintenance affecting multiple systems from 12:01 a.m. until 5:30 a.m. on Saturday, September 2 ET.

The following systems will be unavailable during the maintenance period:

    • EFS-Web for Registered eFilers, Unregistered eFilers, and EFS-Web Contingency

    • Private PAIR

    • Patent Center will be available as an alternative to electronically file and retrieve patent applications. Please refer to our Filing Documents during an Outage page for other alternative filing method.


Last updated: Thursday, Aug 31, 2023 at 6:34 AM ET
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Unless otherwise indicated, all systems should be operating normally.

Issues impacting remote employees are available on the Internal system status platform.