USPTO incident

Learn to assess the strengths and weaknesses of your patent application

USPTO is currently experiencing a minor incident, which began 43 min ago. The vendor's full update timeline is below.

Started
May 21, 2026, 12:59 PM UTC
Resolved
Ongoing
Duration
● 42m
Detected by Pingoru
May 21, 2026, 12:59 PM UTC

Update timeline

  1. monitoring May 21, 2026, 12:59 PM UTC

    This free, two-day virtual workshop will show first-time patent filers how to search public patent databases to determine if their invention is novel in the art.