Patent Center Maintenance

until
Completed

The USPTO will perform a routine maintenance on the Patent Center from midnight-5 a.m. ET on Saturday, August 15.

During this maintenance period, Patent Center will be unavailable. Please refer to our Filing Documents during an Outage page for other alternative filing methods.

Last updated: Saturday, Aug 15, 2026 at 5:00 AM ET
chevron_left View past planned events chevron_right
View current events chevron_right

Past status updates:

- Completed
- In progress
- Planned maintenance

Subscribe to updates

Unless otherwise indicated, all systems should be operating normally.

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

    print Print this page
Additional information  about this page