USPTO News Updates
planned Executive · Tier 2 · HTML index · Department of Commerce
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What this source is
The United States Patent and Trademark Office, within Commerce, examines patents and registers trademarks. Its news-updates index carries press releases and notices on intellectual-property policy, fees, and operations, typically a few items per week.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), within the Department of Commerce, examines patent applications and registers trademarks. Its news updates announce intellectual-property policy, operations, and procedural changes.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office is the Commerce Department agency responsible for administering the U.S. patent and trademark systems. USPTO examines patent applications for inventions and grants patents that give inventors exclusive rights; registers trademarks and service marks that identify and protect brand names; maintains searchable databases of patents and trademarks; and enforces the rights associated with patent and trademark ownership. The office serves inventors, businesses, trademark owners, and the public in protecting intellectual property.
The USPTO news-updates channel publishes official announcements about agency policies, operations, and procedural matters. Typical releases address patent examination policy and procedures; patent classification systems and search tools; trademark registration procedures and policy; fee adjustments and payment matters for patent and trademark services; new forms or online systems for patent and trademark applicants; technology and infrastructure updates; and operational notices.
In this digest, you will see USPTO announcements about changes to patent examination guidelines or procedures; updates to trademark application or registration procedures; fee changes for patent and trademark services; new online tools or systems for patent and trademark filing and searching; updates to patent and trademark databases and search capabilities; office technology deployments; and operational notices affecting patent applicants and trademark owners.
USPTO releases are factual statements about intellectual-property administration. The announcements explain how the patent and trademark systems operate and communicate procedural changes to inventors, trademark owners, patent practitioners, and the public. Publications emerge at a rate of a few items per week. The news-updates channel serves as USPTO's primary means of announcing procedural changes and operational updates in patent and trademark administration.
Model-written orientation, generated 2026-08-07 by haiku, prompt version 1. It may draw on general knowledge of public institutions and is not official-record content.
Identity and registry record
- Registry id
uspto-press- Agency / parent organization
- Department of Commerce
- Branch
- executive
- Type
- HTML index
- Status
- planned
- Tier
- 2
- URL (home)
- https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/news-updates (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2026-07-26
- Registry notes
- Probed 2026-07-26: index reachable (HTTP 200), no RSS/Atom feed found or autodiscovered — HTML index diffing required. Probed 2026-07-31 (from the operator machine, outside the server's daily budget): reachable, HTTP 200, robots allows, but no machine-readable feed is advertised — ingestion waits on an html-index adapter, not on the publisher. Phase 5, 2026-07-31: the html-index adapter now exists and was run against this source's captured index bytes. Against the 2026-07-31 capture it reads listing has 143 article link(s); 0 dated inside the 7-day lookback, 0 dated outside it, 143 skipped for no readable date — the served HTML states no per-entry publication date, so every entry is skipped rather than dated by observation. This is a script-rendered listing; opening it needs evidence of a dated channel, not a cadence decision. Probed 2026-08-06: the Drupal Views convention <index-path>/feed.xml — confirmed working on nih-news and tsa-press — returns 404 here. Recorded as a negative so the next reader does not repeat the guess: on this registry, mining a source's own captured page for feed links finds feeds, and guessing platform conventions does not (14 of 14 candidates 404'd).
How we ingest it
- Channel
- HTML index
- Method
- HTML index diff via AgencyClient (pending content evaluation)
- Request budget
- the agency class: at most 3,000 requests per day shared across every agency web source, counted from the fetch log (failed requests count too)
- Politeness
- robots.txt is honored as observed — including each host's crawl-delay, exactly — and every request identifies itself as fapd/0.1 (Free Agentic Publication Digester; +https://fapd.info/bot.html; contact: hustleyourcity@gmail.com); a refusal is recorded, never evaded
- Capture and hash
- captured raw content is hashed (SHA-256) into the day's committed provenance manifest, hash-chained day to day (PROVENANCE.md)
Ingestion health
Not ingested: the registry status of this source is planned.
Ingestion statistics
These figures describe this project's ingestion of this source — items we recorded and requests we made — and nothing else. They are not a measurement of the publisher.
Not ingested: the registry status of this source is planned. Ingestion statistics are measured for sources the pipeline reads.
All time
No requests to www.uspto.gov are recorded in the request log.
Last 30 days, day by day
No requests and no items were recorded in the last 30 days, so there is nothing to chart.