Website Outages

Both the Federal Court and CIPO websites have scheduled outages this weekend. The Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal announced that their website, email and e-filing will be unavailable from Friday night to Sunday morning. CIPO’s deposit accounts and some e-commerce services will be unavailable from Friday afternoon to Monday morning.

In a pop-up window on the Federal Court website, there is the following announcement:

Please be advised that all network services of the Federal Court of Canada will be unavailable on the following dates: From Friday, May 10, 2013 starting at 8:00PM EST until Sunday, May 12, 2013 at 8:00AM EST

The following services will not be available:

  • Federal Court of Canada Website
  • E-mail

Disruption of E-Filing Services

Please be advised that the Federal Court’s e-filing services will not be available on the following dates: From Friday, May 10, 2013 starting at 8:00PM EST until Sunday, May 12, 2013 at 8:00AM EST

In a separate announcement, Canadian Intellectual Property Office has sent out a series of email alerts and posted an alert on its website as follows:

Service interruption – May 10-13, 2013

Due to maintenance activities, payment with Deposit Accounts will not be available starting at 3:30 p.m. on May 10 until 9:00 p.m. (EST) on May 13.

Some e-commerce services will be inaccessible starting at 6:00 p.m. on May 10 until 7:00 a.m. on May 13 (EST).

We apologize for any inconvenience. For date-sensitive material, please review the Correspondence Procedures.