USPTO incident

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USPTO is currently experiencing a minor incident, which began 9h ago. The vendor's full update timeline is below.

Started
May 20, 2026, 12:59 PM UTC
Resolved
Ongoing
Duration
● 9h 4m
Detected by Pingoru
May 20, 2026, 12:59 PM UTC

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  1. monitoring May 20, 2026, 12:59 PM UTC

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