Intellectual Property Office: service availability and issues
Check the availability and any issues affecting our services.
Planned downtime
The ‘Apply to register a design’ service will be unavailable from 7am to midday on Thursday 8 May 2025.
All our online services will be unavailable between:
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6:30am to 10pm on Saturday 10 May 2025
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8:30am to 10pm on Sunday 11 May 2025
The ‘One IPO Search’ service will be unavailable between 6:30am on Saturday 10 May 2025 to 9am on Monday 12 May 2025.
Service status
There are no current service issues.
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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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.
Update history
2026-01-14 11:10
Planned downtime: All IPO Services, with the exception of Search For Patent, will be unavailable for planned maintenance from 6:30am to 10pm on Saturday 17 January 2026 added.
2026-01-12 09:07
All services running as normal.
2026-01-09 09:54
Renewals service issue resolved.
2026-01-08 10:49
All Trade Mark services (excluding Renewals) will be impacted for planned work between 7am Saturday 10 January until 6pm Sunday 11 January 2026 added.
2025-12-15 16:05
Search for Patent is back online for customers.
2025-12-15 14:53
Planned downtime has been resolved. However, the maintenance of Search for Patent is likely to continue through to approx 16:00 today (Monday 15 December).
2025-12-15 12:04
Search for Patent service is currently unavailable for maintenance until approximately 14:30 today (Monday 15 December)
2025-12-12 16:40
Service status update.
2025-12-08 10:52
All IPO Services, with the exception of Search For Patent, will be unavailable for planned maintenance between 6:30am to 10pm on Saturday 13 December added.
2025-12-05 10:57
All Trade Mark Services will be unavailable for essential work between 7am Saturday 6 December 2025 and 6pm Sunday 7 December 2025 added.
2025-12-04 13:07
All our services are running normally.
2025-12-03 12:51
Between 2:30pm and 4:40 pm today (03/12/25) All Designs Services will be unavailable for essential work added.
2025-12-02 16:22
All services are working normally.
2025-12-01 11:40
Our Apply for a Design and Apply for Orphan Works Licence services will be unavailable between 7am to 9am on Tuesday 2 December 2025 added.
2025-11-26 06:55
All our external services, with the exception of Search for a Patent, will be unavailable from 6am Saturday 29 November to 10pm Sunday 30 November 2025.
2025-11-20 10:28
All services are now available and there is planned downtime: ALL One IPO Search services will be unavailable from 9am to 11am Tuesday 25 November 2025 added.
2025-11-19 09:17
Planned downtime: All Trade mark services will be unavailable between 5pm to 10pm today Wednesday 19 November 2025 and ALL Trade mark and Patent services including Renewals (with the exception of Search for a Patent which will remain available) from 6am to 9am Thursday 20 November 2025.
2025-11-18 15:01
Cloudfare issue is resolved. No service issues
2025-11-18 12:27
Service issue: There is a temporary cloudflare issue
2025-11-10 11:26
All services are running as normal.
2025-11-03 15:41
All IPO Services, with the exception of Search For Patent, will be unavailable for planned maintenance from 6:30am to 10pm on Saturday 8 November added to the planned downtime.
2025-10-29 21:08
Services have been taken out of maintenance mode
2025-10-15 15:51
Scheduled downtime to Apply for design and Apply for Orphan works licence added.
2025-10-08 14:33
All IPO Services, with the exception of Search For Patent, will be unavailable for planned maintenance from 6:30am to 10pm on Saturday 11 October and 7am to 10pm on Sunday 12 October added.
2025-10-06 14:10
Service resumed.
2025-10-01 14:43
Service issues resolved.
2025-10-01 14:15
Current issue is affecting the performance of a number of IPO services.
2025-09-24 14:16
Journal services issues have been resolved.
2025-09-22 14:08
All Trade mark services will be unavailable for planned maintenance from 5pm – 9pm Monday 22 September added.
2025-09-12 14:15
Service issue resolved
2025-09-12 12:37
Current issues across all of our online services are being investigated.
2025-09-11 12:52
All IPO Services, with the exception of Search For Patent, will be unavailable for planned maintenance between 6:30am to 10pm on 13 September 2025 added.
2025-09-04 16:16
Planned downtime to some of our services due 6 September.
2025-09-03 17:03
Service issue resolved.
2025-09-03 16:09
Finance service issue updated.
2025-09-03 15:55
Finance service issue added.
2025-09-02 18:30
Trade Mark services are resumed.
2025-09-02 15:37
All Trade Mark services will be unavailable for planned maintenance from 17:00 to 20:00 on 2 September.
2025-08-12 10:50
An issue with the Trade mark search is being investigated
2025-08-11 11:10
Search for a trade mark service back on line
2025-08-11 10:39
Planned downtime is completed. Search for a trademark service is currently offline
2025-08-07 14:49
Service is resumed.
2025-08-07 10:25
Trade Mark service is resumed.
2025-08-07 10:16
Trade Mark search service currently being investigated.
2025-08-06 13:45
Planned maintenance updated: 9th August
2025-07-30 10:31
Service update: Trade mark search issue resolved.
2025-07-30 09:56
Service status: There is a known issue with the Trade mark search service.
2025-07-29 11:36
Service update – Trade mark services are now operational, no known issues.
2025-07-29 09:53
Service update – Fault in the Trade mark search service.
2025-07-16 11:48
Status changed to no current issues with any of our services
2025-07-14 14:02
Latest information about the search for a patent service being offline
2025-07-14 10:22
Planned maintenance completed.
2025-07-11 07:56
Updated message on planned maintenance on all services on 12 July 2025
2025-07-10 16:50
Service status updated regarding our Search for intellectual property and Search the intellectual property journal services.
2025-07-09 18:49
Service update – Research service is offline.
2025-07-08 13:24
Update on service issue with search for a patent
2025-07-08 08:14
Message about deposit account receipts removed as the issue is now resolved.
2025-07-07 14:28
Informing deposit account customers of a delay receiving filing receipts
2025-07-07 07:18
All services are now available with the exception of Patent Search Service which is expected to be offline until 8 July 1pm
2025-07-04 10:19
Planned downtime update.
2025-07-01 08:02
Service status update.
2025-06-17 14:13
Service update – resolved.
2025-06-17 13:20
Service update.
2025-06-17 09:23
The service status section has been updated due to Apply to register a trade mark issues are now resolved.
2025-06-17 09:18
Services status section updated due to Apply to register a trade mark service unavailability.
2025-06-10 08:20
Planned maintenance message for users.
2025-06-09 16:16
Status updated – all issues resolved
2025-06-09 09:12
Live service update for deposit account customers.
2025-05-20 10:50
There is planned downtime scheduled for Wednesday 21 May 2025 between 7am and 9am our external Designs services will be impacted.
2025-05-19 15:24
Planned maintenance on Trade Mark external services between 5pm and 8pm 20 May 2025 added.
2025-05-08 12:42
Service status section updated due to a fault with the ‘Search for a trade mark (by word, phrase and/or image)’.
2025-05-07 16:09
The ‘Apply to register a design’ service and the ‘One IPO Search’ service downtime added to Planned downtime section.
2025-05-06 13:57
First published.