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A 3-Year Exposure of Privacy Act-Protected Data Revealed USPTO Mismanagement in Safeguarding the Sensitive PII of Trademark Filers

Date Issued June 24, 2024
Report Number OIG-24-029-I
Report Type Audits / Evaluations
Description

Our evaluation found that after exposure of trademark applicants’ personally identifiable information (PII) in a USPTO web application, USPTO leadership did not comply with federal, departmental, and USPTO incident response requirements and knowingly allowed PII to remain publicly accessible during incident mitigation.
View Report OIG-24-029-I_FinalReport
View Abstract OIG-24-029-I_RIB_(SECURED)
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