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USPTO Contact Center Outage 


The USPTO is experiencing a known intermittent telephony issue and/or call audio issue with calls to the USPTO. The USPTO Tech Support Teams are working to resolve the issue.


Documents are unavailable in Private PAIR and Patent Center

Currently, some e-Office Action participants are receiving notification(s) of new correspondence but are unable to view or download the communication.  

The USPTO Technical Teams are working to resolve the issue on the systems that provide the documents.

Last updated: Monday, Jul 24, 2023 at 2:06 PM ET
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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.