USPTO incident

Patent Center Affected by Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outage

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Resolved after 2 days 21 hours, affecting Patent Center (PC), on October 20, 2025.

investigating Oct 20, 2025, 05:40 PM UTC

Degraded performance, Investigating

Started
Oct 20, 2025, 05:23 PM UTC
Resolved
Oct 23, 2025, 02:35 PM UTC
Duration
2d 21h
Detected by Pingoru
Oct 20, 2025, 05:23 PM UTC

Affected components

Patent Center (PC)

Update timeline

  1. investigating Oct 20, 2025, 05:24 PM UTC

    Patent Center is experiencing intermittent service interruptions due to an AWS outage. The USPTO is working to resolve the issue. For impacted users who are unable to submit filings, please refer to our Filing Documents during an Outage page for other alternative filing method.

  2. investigating Oct 20, 2025, 05:40 PM UTC

    Degraded performance, Investigating

  3. resolved Oct 23, 2025, 02:35 PM UTC

    Resolved

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