[Patentcenter] Patent Center Availability

Thu Feb 29 17:37:05 EST 2024

Oh I'm pretty sure it was true then and now. There's just no logic to
support a malicious DDOS attack on the USPTO systems, much less two attacks
with today's leaving the registered-user path viable. 

The new systems are just unstable. The regular, daily delay and error
messages that we get indicate that.

Sandra 

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Remember the apparent DDOS attack back in January.  And Sandra E joked about
DDOS being just normal filers filing in a volume the system can't handle.

Maybe that was true.

I have clients who like to look up stuff about their applications.  Now they
cannot - except maybe in Global Dossier.  Great job, PTO!

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Not for that reason, anyway. While designing systems for lots of traffic
requires careful work, it's doable. But apparently that's beyond the
capability of whatever contractor(s) the PTO employed for their New Way of
Working. The r/patentexaminer subreddit has numerous complaints about how
badly the PTO's IT systems are working for them, too. So apparently the PTO
can't get things right for anyone, internal or external.

Here at the USPTO our servers and IT infrastructure are state of the art!
<https://www.reddit.com/r/patentexaminer/comments/1ark24w/its_a_living/> 

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I don't recall Public PAIR having to be shutdown.

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Subject: [Patentcenter] Patent Center Availability

Patent Center Public Application Access Unavailable

The Patent Center public application access has been temporarily disabled to
address excessive traffic volume impacting USPTO systems. Guests or
unauthenticated users will be unable to access publicly available
applications.  

Logged in registered users will not be affected and will still be able to
access applications. Filing applications for guest/unauthenticated users and
logged in registered users is not affected by this activity.

The USPTO Technical Teams are implementing a solution to mitigate the
underlying concern and will update users when it is resolved. We expect
functionality to be restored by 5pm.

EMERGENCY: Patent Center Submissions

Users are reporting that they are not able to view submissions.  Patent
Center operations are currently being impacted by other internal USPTO
systems. The USPTO Technical Teams are investigating the issues and will
update users when it is resolved.

Posted at  <https://www.uspto.gov/blog/ebiz/entry/current-events1055>
11:38AM Feb 29, 2024 in Current Status  | 

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