System maintenance

We do regular system maintenance to maintain and upgrade our online services. We'll let you know when this is happening to minimise any impacts on you.  

Maintenance times

We may conduct system maintenance during the following times (in AEST):

  • Wednesdays, 7:30 pm –10:30 pm
  • Saturdays, 9:00 am – 6:00 pm.  

Services that aren't impacted

The following services aren't impacted during our maintenance times:

Current outages

Australian Patent Search notification

The Manuals of Practice and Procedure will be unavailable due to maintenance from 6:00am Saturday 15 February to 12:00am Sunday 16 February (AEDT).

The Australian Patent Search will still be available but not updated during this time.

Please contact patentsearch.feedback@ipaustralia.gov.au for more information.

We apologise for the inconvenience.

Further information

If you have any questions or would like more information about our system maintenance times, contact us.

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