USPTO Systems Status and Availability

Friday Apr 13, 2012

EFS Web and IFW Maintenance

System Maintenance

EFS Web and EFS Web Contingency will be unavailable from 12:01 a.m. until 3 a.m. Saturday, April 14 and also from 12:01 a.m. until 2 a.m. Sunday, April 15.

IFW Hardware Maintenance

USPTO will install new servers for the Image File Wrapper (IFW) production database starting at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, April 14 and ending at 5:30 a.m. Sunday, April 15

The following patent systems will be partially available during the outage:

  • Public and Private PAIR- All data will be available except for IFW data
  • EAI-Hub – Entries will be allowed, but will paused for IFW submissions
  • File Inspection Utility - All data will be available except for IFW data
  • Order Entry Management System (OEMS) - All data will be available except for IFW data

System Maintenance

OCIO will be performing maintenance on the server housing Trademark Document Retrieval (TDR) starting at 12:01 a.m. and ending at 5 a.m. Wednesday, April 18.

TDR will be unavailable during the maintenance.