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
From 6:30am to 10pm Saturday 14 June 2025 all of our online services will be unavailable due to planned maintenance. We apologise for this unavoidable disruption.
Service status
There are no current 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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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.