Government
USPTO
The USPTO grants patents and registers trademarks, serving as the official US agency for intellectual property protection.
What is USPTO?
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has been operating in some form since 1790, when Congress passed the first Patent Act. Today the USPTO manages one of the most heavily used intellectual property databases in the world, handling hundreds of thousands of patent and trademark applications each year. Its online infrastructure includes Patent Center for electronic patent filing, TEAS (Trademark Electronic Application System) for trademark submissions, TSDR for trademark status and document retrieval, Public PAIR and Patent Center for patent application tracking, and the Patent Full-Text Database for searching granted patents. Law firms, inventors, corporations, and individual applicants depend on these systems daily for high-stakes IP filings.
USPTO systems carry legal deadline implications that most government portals do not. Patent and trademark filings must meet strict statutory deadlines; a system outage that prevents a timely response to an Office Action or blocks a fee payment can have lasting legal consequences. The USPTO has formal policies addressing system outages — in some cases, outages entitle filers to extended deadlines — but navigating those accommodations requires that the outage be documented and recognized. The agency's API layer also serves law firm software and docketing systems, so backend disruptions propagate through the legal industry's toolchain.
When USPTO systems go down, the effects are felt immediately in the patent and trademark prosecution community. Patent Center file submissions return upload errors or infinite loading states. TEAS trademark applications fail to submit or acknowledge payment. TSDR searches return no results or display blank pages. MyUSPTO account logins fail. Fee payments processed through pay.gov integrations are declined or left in an ambiguous pending state. API queries from legal software time out, disrupting automated docketing workflows.
Outage.gg tracks USPTO system availability through reports from attorneys, agents, and pro se filers. If Patent Center, TEAS, or other USPTO services are down, the live status page provides real-time community reports and incident tracking.
Common USPTO Problems
Issues users most frequently report when USPTO is having problems.
Login failures
Players are unable to sign in, receiving authentication errors or being stuck on loading screens.
Matchmaking problems
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Disconnections mid-session
Getting unexpectedly kicked from active sessions, losing in-game progress or items.
In-game store & purchases
Cannot load the in-game store, complete purchases, or received items are not appearing in inventory.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about USPTO outages and server status.
You can check the live USPTO server status at outage.gg/services/uspto. The page shows real-time community-submitted outage reports, an hourly trend chart, and the current health status.
USPTO can stop working for a number of reasons including scheduled maintenance windows, unexpected server failures, network infrastructure problems, or DDoS attacks. Check the live status page on Outage.gg for the latest community reports to see if others are experiencing the same issue.
Go to outage.gg/services/uspto and click the "Report an Issue" button. Your report is counted immediately and helps confirm whether a problem is widespread. Reports from multiple users trigger a status change visible to everyone watching the page.
Click the "Notify Me" bell button on the USPTO status page at outage.gg/services/uspto. Create a free account and we will send you an email the moment USPTO comes back online — no app download required.
Many services maintain official status pages with planned maintenance notices. Outage.gg aggregates real-time community-reported outages which often surface faster than official channels.
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