Is uspto.gov legit or a scam?
Official U.S. Patent and Trademark Office website with authentic .gov domain, government branding, and zero security flags.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
The screenshot depicts the fully-rendered homepage of the United States Patent and Trademark Office with consistent official government branding, standard federal website disclosure banners, and no visual scam indicators present.
What our vision model saw
6 signalsOfficial U.S. government banner ('An official website of the United States government') with standard 'Here's how you know' disclosure link visible at top
USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) branding, logo, and navigation consistent with a legitimate federal agency website
Search bar explicitly labeled 'Search uspto.gov', consistent with the official domain
Professional layout with standard government navigation structure: Patents, Trademarks, IP Policy, Learning and Resources
No urgency tactics, countdown timers, suspicious forms, or fake trust badges detected
No pop-up overlays, push-notification prompts, or intrusive modals present
MT Intelligence
USPTO.gov is the authentic federal agency website for the United States Patent and Trademark Office, established over 200 years ago under the Department of Commerce. Our antivirus network flagged zero malicious or suspicious detections across 92 engines, and the hosting IP carries zero abuse reports. The site displays the standard U.S. government security banner ('An official website of the United States government') and maintains a valid SSL certificate issued by Google Trust Services. USA.gov, Wikipedia, and the agency's official LinkedIn profile all confirm this as the legitimate domain. The agency actively publishes anti-scam resources and warns users about impersonators cloning this site or spoofing @uspto.gov emails — a strong indicator of the site's authenticity and the agency's commitment to protecting users from fraud.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for uspto.gov, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- uspto.gov is the official website of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, a federal agency in the U.S. Department of Commerce, as confirmed by USA.gov, Wikipedia, and the site itself displaying government banners.
- The site prominently displays "An official website of the United States government" with .gov security indicators.
- USPTO actively maintains pages dedicated to warning about trademark and patent scams, including scammers who clone uspto.gov or spoof @uspto.gov emails to steal information or demand payments.
- Official communications come only from @uspto.gov addresses; all legitimate notices appear in the TSDR system (tsdr.uspto.gov).
- No scam reports, negative reviews, or complaints were found targeting uspto.gov itself; search results instead highlight the agency's anti-scam resources and reports of impersonators.
- The agency has a Patent Fraud Mitigation Unit and collaborates with FTC, DOJ, and others to combat fraud; users are directed to report scams to TMScams@uspto.gov.
- Facebook page for USPTO confirms official source of information is www.uspto.gov.
- USA.govopen
"The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the agency responsible for granting U.S. patents and registering trademarks."
- Wikipediaopen
"The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is an agency in the US Department of Commerce that serves as the national patent office and trademark ... Website www.uspto.gov"
- LinkedInopen
"The USPTO is a federal agency in the Department of Commerce. ... For over 200 years, the basic role of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has remained the same..."
Official U.S. federal government agency under the Department of Commerce, established over 200 years ago per the U.S. Constitution. Listed on USA.gov, Wikipedia, and maintains official .gov domain.
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for uspto.gov and found zero scam reports or complaints targeting the official site. Instead, results confirm the site's legitimacy through USA.gov, Wikipedia, and the agency's official social-media profiles. The USPTO actively publishes resources warning users about trademark and patent scams, including scammers who clone the site or spoof @uspto.gov email addresses. The agency operates a Patent Fraud Mitigation Unit and directs users to report suspected fraud to TMScams@uspto.gov.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No email uses the site's own domain — legitimate shops usually do.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 5 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://uspto.gov/
- 2200https://www.uspto.gov/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on uspto.gov and not a lookalike like u-spto.gov.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on uspto.gov. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- uspto.gov passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 97/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. uspto.gov presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 44 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report uspto.gov as clean.
- No. uspto.gov is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- uspto.gov resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- Yes. uspto.gov sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 18, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around uspto.gov have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
User reviews & comments(0)
Share your experience — "Lost $200 on a fake checkout" is more useful than "Scam". Your review helps others avoid traps.