USPTO incident
Women's Equality Day 2026: Celebrating women inventors and the 19th Amendment
USPTO experienced a minor incident on August 12, 2021, lasting 1876d. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
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- monitoring Aug 12, 2021, 07:44 PM UTC
This event is to commemorate the 236th anniversary of the first U.S. patent within the America250 framework, and to educate and inspire the public by tracing the full 250-year arc of American invention.