Intellectual Property Office: service availability and issues
Check the availability of, and any issues affecting, our services.
Updates made during business hours only. Unplanned service issues outside these times may not appear here.
Planned downtime
There is currently no planned downtime.
Service status
Due to essential maintenance, the following services have been taken offline until further notice:
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Search for intellectual property
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Search the intellectual property journal
The IPO is currently going through a period of significant change, as it transitions to new internal and external digital services. Our new systems are still bedding in and being refined.
We are currently checking that our new patent search service shows the information that it should on all applications and have put the service into maintenance mode while we do so.
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We expect this service to be back online at 10am Wednesday 16 July.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Notify us
If you are experiencing issues which are not listed please contact:
- Email: information@ipo.gov.uk
- Telephone: 0300 300 2000 during office access and opening times
Updates to this page
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Latest information about the search for a patent service being offline
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Planned maintenance completed.
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Updated message on planned maintenance on all services on 12 July 2025
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Service status updated regarding our Search for intellectual property and Search the intellectual property journal services.
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Service update - Research service is offline.
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Update on service issue with search for a patent
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Message about deposit account receipts removed as the issue is now resolved.
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Informing deposit account customers of a delay receiving filing receipts
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All services are now available with the exception of Patent Search Service which is expected to be offline until 8 July 1pm
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Planned downtime update.
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Service status update.
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Service update - resolved.
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Service update.
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The service status section has been updated due to Apply to register a trade mark issues are now resolved.
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Services status section updated due to Apply to register a trade mark service unavailability.
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Planned maintenance message for users.
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Status updated - all issues resolved
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Live service update for deposit account customers.
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There is planned downtime scheduled for Wednesday 21 May 2025 between 7am and 9am our external Designs services will be impacted.
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Planned maintenance on Trade Mark external services between 5pm and 8pm 20 May 2025 added.
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Service status section updated due to a fault with the 'Search for a trade mark (by word, phrase and/or image)'.
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The 'Apply to register a design' service and the 'One IPO Search' service downtime added to Planned downtime section.
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First published.