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USPT-no-gO.gov ? Source of the issues?

By nipper

It’s been pretty clear that in the last month or so that the services (e.g., PAIR, PatFT/AppFT, TESS, TDR) provided on the US Patent and Trademark Office’s website (uspto.gov) are frequently overloaded/off-line. Talking with a colleague about this same issue this morning, he noted that “uspto.gov appears to be configured to not accept incoming ping requests.” Closed ping port? Odd. Has anyone heard rumors why? DoS attacks? Equipment failure? Other? By the way, planned outages/issues can be typically found here: http://www.uspto.gov/helpdesk/status/status.htm. Related posts:Better Business Bureau, Phishing and other Security Issues Apparently someone is mass emailing businesses (including attorneys) with emails...continue to full post

Full post as published by Invent Blog on September 18, 2009 (boomark / email).