Patent Center Affected by Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outage

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.

Last updated: Thursday, Oct 23, 2025 at 10:35 AM ET
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Past status updates:

- Resolved
- Degraded performance, Investigating
- Degraded performance, Investigating

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Unless otherwise indicated, all systems should be operating normally.

Issues impacting remote employees are available on the Internal system status platform.