Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO LEAP-eligible practitioners speak with PTAB judges (in person and on screen) about logistic...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Bolstered by the Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Director Vidal spoke with local entrepreneurs and business owners at the China IP Road Show...
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Vaishali Udupa, Commissioner for Patents As we announced in September, as part of our modernization efforts to provide more extensible technology and functionality, the EFS-Web and Private Pate...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO On September 20, Director Vidal spoke with Kim Tignor, executive director of Take Creative ...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO On September 27, 2023, Commissioner for Patents Vaishali Udupa spoke at the USPTO’s fourth...
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Guest blog by Dave Gooder, Commissioners for Trademarks The Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS) has been a fixture of the USPTO’s information technology portfolio for decades. Those of ...
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Guest blog by Dave Gooder, Commissioner for Trademarks Director Kathi Vidal and Commissioner for Trademarks Dave Gooder speak to stakeholders at the International Trademark Association meeting ...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO The USPTO hosted the leaders of the five largest intellectual property offices of the world,...
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Note: This blog originally published on the Commerce blog . USPTO staff Alford Kindred and Harry Kim share entrepreneurship resources with military personnel and spouses at Hanscom Air Force...
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Note: This blog originally published on the NOAA Research blog . Parikha Mehta and Wayne Mackenzie discussing Dr. Bianca Baier’s innovative AirCore atmospheric sampling device and the HORUS ...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO It’s been a work in progress for many months, and today, I’m excited to announce the pu...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Director Vidal with service members, military spouses, and veteran entrepreneurs at MacDi...
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Guest blog by Derrick Brent, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office Deputy Director Brent discussed U...
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Guest blog by Vaishali Udupa, Commissioner for Patents of the USPTO Winning team of the 2023 National Patent Application Drafting Competition, Khailee, Bree, Rita, and Maria, from the George Wa...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTOEvery year on April 26, we join intellectual property (IP) organizations from across the globe ...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most powerful technologies of our generation, and...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Director Vidal moderates a fireside chat with Mujeeb Ijaz, Founder and Chief Executive Offic...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Brand owners are all around us. They include new entrepreneurs and established corporations,...
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Guest blog by Deborah Stephens, Deputy Chief Information Officer, United States Patent and Trademark Office My name is Debbie Stephens, and I am the Deputy Chief Information Officer (DCIO) for...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Are you a teacher looking to equip your students with the confidence to solve real world pro...
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Joint blog by Thomas J. Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, and Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Photo cour...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Do you know about the free resources the USPTO offers for inventors and entrepreneurs? From ...
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Guest blog by Rebekah Oakes, Acting Historian, USPTO Left to right: Richard F. America, Henry Baker, Marjorie Stewart Joyner (top), Cornell Conaway, Tope Mitchell, James West (bottom) In the...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO On August 8, 2022, students, parents, and educators got firsthand experience trying out Equ...
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This blog post is part of a series showcasing the diverse African American leaders from across the U.S. Department of Commerce in honor of Black History Month. By James O. Wilson, Assistant Re...
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Guest blog by Derrick Brent, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office Deputy Director Brent spoke with ...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO James West has been recognized as an NMTI Laureate, IEEE Fellow, inductee to the National...
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Guest blog by David Cho, current chair of the USPTO’s Trademark Public Advisory Committee (TPAC) and Assistant Vice President Senior Legal Counsel, Trademarks & Copyrights of AT&T Services, In...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO On September 19, Director Vidal joined a team of student inventors at Garey High School in ...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO; Andrew Faile, Acting Commissioner for Patents; and Jamie Holcombe, Chief Information Officer ...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO It’s a privilege to announce the five winners of our Patents for Humanity: COVID-19 categor...
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Joint blog by the USPTO and the Economic Development Administration This month, the U.S. Department of Commerce is celebrating Native American innovators and entrepreneurs. Agencies across the...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Students in the USPTO’s IP skills work-based learning program conducted with the Urban All...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Over two years ago, the USPTO introduced the Legal Experience and Advancement Pro...
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Joint blog by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the Economic Development Administration This month, the U.S. Department of Commerce is celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month and Hispanic c...
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Editorial note: This is a post about the USPTO from the U.S. Department of Commerce Do you want to learn about valuable tools available to inventors and entrepreneurs? Are you eager to be inspi...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Technical standards play a critical role in our daily lives. From the phones in our pockets ...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO This is the first blog post in a series the USPTO is launching on our comprehensive anti-...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Director Vidal addresses the WIPO General Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, in July 2022. T...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO We are working across our great agency to improve our processes, technology, and training. E...
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Blog by Andrew Faile, Acting Commissioner for Patents, and Jamie Holcombe, Chief Information Officer “The new search interface for Patent Public Search looks really nice. We’re enjoying pl...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO The United States is a global leader in new drug development. The important contributions an...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO From left: USPTO staff worked with second graders on their science and engineering projects...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO UPDATE: Given the overwhelming interest in the guidance, the USPTO will now accept feedback ...
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Guest blog by Adam Bisno, USPTO Historian Blodgett’s Hotel, which never did function as a hotel, became the headquarters of the U.S. Patent Office and the General Post Office in 1810. (Image...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO As we recently announced , on August 1, we will replace the Public Patent Application Infor...
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Joint blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO, and Robert M. Califf, FDA Commissioner President Biden is helping Americans protect...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO, and David Gooder, Commissioner for Trademarks at the USPTO Trademark Terminal. Trademark Re...
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Joint blog by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the Economic Development Administration (EDA) This month, the U.S. Department of Commerce is celebrating the LGBTQ+ community an...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO The great-granddaughter of inventor Edward Bullard visits the exhibit dedicated to his inve...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO PTAB proceedings at the USPTO (Photos by Jay Premack/USPTO) As Director of America’s innova...
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AI AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES PARTNERSHIP: JOIN UPCOMING DISCUSSIONS ON MAXIMIZING INNOVATION’S WIDESPREAD IMPACT Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO In January, our colleagues at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a sister ...
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Joint blog by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the Economic Development AdministrationThis month, the U.S. Department of Commerce is celebrating Americans from Asian American and Native ...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO On World IP Day on April 26, Director Vidal met with representatives from the World Intelle...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Invention-Con 2018 (Photo by Michael Cleveland/USPTO) Are you an aspiring or established i...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO; Andrew Faile, Acting Commissioner for Patents; and Jamie Holcombe, Chief Information Officer ...
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Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO I am excited to announce that today the USPTO released the “Summary of public views on t...
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A blog about the USPTO by the U.S. Department of Commerce. In honor of Women’s History Month, and as part of our efforts to protect and promote the ingenuity of American inventors and entr...
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Blog by Drew Hirshfeld, Performing the Functions and Duties of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO America is a nation of inventors and entrepren...
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Blog by Drew Hirshfeld, Performing the Functions and Duties of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO The design for the National Medal of Technolo...
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Blog by Drew Hirshfeld, Performing the Functions and Duties of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO, and Scott Boalick, Chief Judge of the Patent Tr...
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Blog by Drew Hirshfeld, Performing the Functions and Duties of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO In response to a January 2021 Executive Order ...
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Guest blog by Jay Hoffman, Chief Financial Officer Madison building at USPTO headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia (Photo by Jay Premack/USPTO)Here at America’s innovation agency, we place a h...
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Guest blog by David Gooder, Commissioner for Trademarks On November 17, we published the final rule to implement provisions of the Trademark Modernization Act (TMA), which provides trademark o...
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Blog by Drew Hirshfeld, Performing the Functions and Duties of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Like so many other service agencies and organi...
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Guest blog by Andrew Faile, Acting Commissioner for Patents A core focus of our work at the USPTO is to foster innovation, competition, and economic growth, by providing opportunities for ...
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Guest Blog by Scott Boalick, Chief Judge of the Patent Trial and Appeal BoardAre you interested in launching your career as an intellectual property (IP) practitioner by clerking for an administr...
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Blog by Drew Hirshfeld, performing the functions and duties of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO, and David Gooder, Commissioner for Trademarks a...
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Guest blog by David Gooder, Commissioner for Trademarks Exterior shot of the Madison Building and Dulany Gardens at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Photo by Jay Premack...
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Guest Blog by Scott Boalick, Chief Judge for the Patent Trial and Appeal Board The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has two programs to expedite our turnaround time for ex part...
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Blog by Drew Hirshfeld, performing the functions and duties of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Photo courtesy of the National Inventors Hall ...
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A blog about the USPTO by the U.S. Department of Commerce USPTO’s Drew Hirshfeld presents Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves with a copy of his ancestor’s patent. (Photo by Jay Prem...
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Guest blog by David Gooder, Commissioner for Trademarks Since last fall, trademark applications from U.S. and foreign applicants have surged to unprecedented levels. As of June 17, the increase...
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Guest blog by Molly Kocialski, Director of the Rocky Mountain Regional U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and Damian Porcari, Director of the Elijah J. McCoy Midwest Regional U.S. Patent and Trade...
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Blog by Drew Hirshfeld, performing the functions and duties of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO The design for the National Medal of Technol...
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Guest blog by Acting Commissioner for Patents Andrew Faile and Chief Information Officer Jamie Holcombe UPDATE: The USPTO has issued a federal register notice delaying the effective date of t...
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Guest blog post by Hannah Wang, Primary Patent Examiner, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Hannah Wang, Primary Patent Examiner, USPTO As a primary patent examiner at the Commerce Dep...
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Guest blog by David Gooder, Commissioner for Trademarks at the USPTO Sustaining and promoting a healthy, vibrant trademark system is at the core of what we strive to do at the USPTO. That is wh...
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A blog about the USPTO from the U.S. Department of Commerce . The USPTO hosted the final installment of the 2021 Women’s Entrepreneurship Symposium (WES) on March 31, where participants�...
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Guest blog post by Valencia Martin-Wallace, Deputy Commissioner for Patents, USPTO Valencia Martin-Wallace, Deputy Commissioner for Patents, USPTO (Photo by Jay Premack/USPTO) As the Deputy ...
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Blog by Drew Hirshfeld, performing the functions and duties of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Among the most important technological develop...
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Editor's note: This is a blog about the USPTO from the U.S. Department of Commerce. Most Americans have likely heard of Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, or Alexander Graham Bell. But what about...
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Blog by Drew Hirshfeld, performing the functions and duties of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO, and Mary Critharis, Chief Policy Officer and Di...
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Guest blog post by LaRita Jones, Division Chief, Office of Human Resources, USPTO LaRita Jones, Division Chief, Office of Human Resources, USPTO Black History Month is a time to honor and sho...
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Blog by Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Director Iancu at the quarterly meeting of the Patent Public Advisory Committee at the USPT...
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Blog by Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO On September 14, the National Council for Expanding American Innovation had its inaugural ...
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Blog by Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO “Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier’....
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First Action Interview Pilot Program to end on January 15, 2021 Blog by Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO, and Drew Hirshfeld, Commis...
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Guest blog by Jay Hoffman, Chief Financial Officer of the USPTO The USPTO’s Performance and Accountability Report (PAR) for fiscal year (FY) 2020 is now online and available to members of t...
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Blog by Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO and Drew Hirshfeld, Commissioner for Patents of the USPTO Patent examination, though inhere...
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Blog by Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO, and Scott Boalick, Chief Judge of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the USPTO On March 1...
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Guest blog by David Gooder, Commissioner for Trademarks, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office At the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), our fundamental mission is to provide stabl...
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Blog by Laura Peter, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Recently, I spoke with Hope Shimabuku , USPTO’s Texas Regional Director in D...
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Guest blog by Commissioner for Patents Drew Hirshfeld The 2021 National Patent Application Drafting Competition has kicked off! The competition, which began as a regional competition led by o...
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Blog by Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO, and Scott Boalick, Chief Judge of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board Practitioners in the L...
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Blog by Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO, and Drew Hirshfeld, Commissioner for Patents Commissioner for Patents Drew Hirshfeld, and ...
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Blog by Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO, and Scott Boalick, Chief Judge of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the USPTO Remote ...
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Blog by Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO, and Jamie Holcombe, Chief Information Officer of the USPTO Illuminating the corridors of t...
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Blog by Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO and Jamie Holcombe, Chief Information Officer of the USPTO Remember that old U.S. Post Offic...
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Guest blog by Thomas Hong, Primary Patent Examiner, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office EDITORIAL NOTE: THIS POST IS PART OF THE SPOTLIGHT ON COMMERCE SERIES HIGHLIGHTING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF DEP...
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Guest blog by Elizabeth Chu, Social Media Specialist and Acting Website Editor-in-Chief, USPTO Editorial Note: This post is part of a series in honor of Public Service Recognition Week (PSRW)...
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Blog by Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO, and Scott Boalick, Chief Judge of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the USPTO (Photo by...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Andrei Iancu Twenty years ago, the World Intellectual Property Organization designated April 26 as World ...
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Guest blog post by Allison Bourke, Supervisory Patent Examiner, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Allison Bourke, Supervisory Patent Examiner, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Ed. note: This ...
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Blog by Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO, and Laura Peter, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Dir...
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Guest blog post by Davetta Goins, Supervisory Patent Examiner, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Davetta Goins, Supervisory Patent Examiner (Photo by Jay Premack/USPTO) Ed. note: This post is ...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Andrei Iancu NMTI laureates Joseph DeSimone, Cato Laurencin, and Mark Humayun after the White House medal...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Andrei Iancu From left: U.S. Chief Technology Officer Michael Kratsios, Director of the USPTO Andrei Ianc...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Andrei Iancu Patents for Humanity is now accepting applications for the 2020 annual awards . This USPTO ...
Guest blog by Director of the USPTO’s IP Attaché Program Dominic Keating On December 4, 2019, several of the USPTO’s intellectual property attachés visited the New Orleans BioInnovation ...
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Blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Laura Peter Deputy Director Laura Peter speaks with Silicon Valley Regional Director John ...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Andrei Iancu Nobel Prize winner John Goodenough with his inventor collectible card presented to him by th...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Andrei Iancu Undergraduate students from Johns Hopkins University, and Finalists in the Collegiate Invent...
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Blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Laura Peter Deputy Director of the USPTO Laura Peter meets University of Tennessee graduate...
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A post about the USPTO from the Department of Commerce . Megan Miller, Plain Language Writer/Editor, USPTO. (Photo by Jay Premack/USPTO) After earning my engineering degree and serving in the...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Andrei Iancu and Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the US...
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By Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Andrei Iancu October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), a time to celebrate the immeas...
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Guest blog by Commissioner for Trademarks Mary Denison MyUSPTO landing page As we work to strengthen security and enhance the trademarks filing experience, we continue to listen to your ideas...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Andrei Iancu, and Commissioner for Patents Drew Hirshfeld Innovation and the protection of it are hallmar...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Andrei Iancu and Commissioner for Patents Drew Hirshfeld For many years, the United States Patent and Tra...
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A blog about the USPTO from the Department of Commerce . Guest blog by Supervisory Patent Examiner Jim H. Alstrum-Acevedo Jim Alstrum-Acevedo, Supervisory Patent Examiner at the USPTO. (Photo...
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Guest blog post by Chief Judge of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board Scott Boalick While recent changes to Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) practices for America Invents Act (AIA) trials hav...
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Guest blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Laura Peter Can a 16-year old young woman change the world? Grant her a patent and watch her...
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A blog about the USPTO from the Department of Commerce . Ed. note: This post is part of the very first Spotlight on Commerce series highlighting the contributions of Department of Commerce empl...
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Blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Laura Peter and Director of the Rocky Mountain Regional Office Molly Kocialski The Patent Trial an...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Andrei Iancu, and Director of the Rocky Mountain Regional Office Molly Kocialski Five years ago this summ...
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Guest blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Laura Peter As a former Silicon Valley intellectual property attorney for more than...
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Guest blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Laura Peter “Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an i...
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By Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Andrei Iancu Director of the USPTO Andrei Iancu addresses the audience at the July 23, 2019 Apollo 50 event...
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Guest blog by Acting Chief Financial Officer of the USPTO Sean Mildrew At the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), we continuously work to reinforce the predictability, reliability, and qu...
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By Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Andrei Iancu Director Iancu meets Camp Invention students in Hyattsville, Maryland, as they work on their inno...
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Guest blog by Shira Perlmutter, Chief Policy Officer and Director for International Affairs at the USPTO I recently had the pleasure of joining five of the USPTO’s IP attachés at a series o...
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By Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Providing entrepreneurs, small businesses, and independent inventors ...
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By Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Andrei Iancu and Chief Information Officer of the USPTO Jamie Holcombe One of our chief goals at the United St...
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By Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Andrei Iancu During National Military Appreciation Month, we recognize the role tha...
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A blog about the USPTO from the Department of Commerce . Ed. Note: This post is part of the Spotlight on Commerce series highlighting the contributions of Department of Commerce employees in ho...
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A blog about the USPTO from the Department of Commerce . Secretary Ross spoke at the National Inventors Hall of Fame induction ceremony on May 2, 2019 at the National Building Museum in Washing...
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By Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Andrei Iancu Every year on April 26, we celebrate World Intellectual Property Day. ...
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By Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Andrei Iancu From left: Deputy Director of the USPTO Laura Peter, USPTO CFC Campaig...
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Blog about the USPTO from the Department of Commerce . Ed. note: This post is part of the Spotlight on Commerce series highlighting the contributions of Department of Commerce employees during ...
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By Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Andrei Iancu The United States has a rich history of women whose ingenuity, creativ...
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Guest blog by Damian Porcari, Director of the Elijah J. McCoy Midwest Regional United States Patent and Trademark Office Innovation and the effective protection of intellectual property (IP) ri...
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Guest Blog by Chief Financial Officer Tony Scardino I’m pleased to announce that the USPTO has published its Performance and Accountability Report (PAR) for fiscal year (FY) 2018 . The PAR se...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Andrei Iancu There are currently more than 20 million U.S. veterans, over 1.2 million men and women servi...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO, Andrei Iancu The institutional knowledge of the USPTO spans beyond patents and trademarks and provides...
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A guest blog by USPTO's Chief Communications Officer Chris Shipp Our commitment to customer service includes having a user friendly and valuable website. To that end, you may have noticed the U...
By Adrienne Cox, Marketing and Communications, Office of the Chief Information Officer To be a technology executive these days is both challenging and exhilarating. More and more, chief informa...
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Blog about the USPTO from the Department of Commerce Ed. note: This post is part of the Spotlight on Commerce series highlighting the contributions of Department of Commerce employees during H...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO, Andrei Iancu/> The newly designed patent cover, unveiled in March of this year and used for the fir...
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Guest blog by Linda Hosler, Deputy Program Manager for USPTO partnerships Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, NBA legend, businessman, and a registered trademark owner, shared his thoughts on African Ameri...
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By Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office The USPTO will first issue this new patent cover, designed i...
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By Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office USPTO Director Andrei Iancu joins AIPLA Executive Director L...
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By Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office 2018 National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee for Nanoc...
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A blog about the USPTO from the Department of Commerce By Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office ...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO, Andrei Iancu By the end of this week, I’ll have held the title Under Secretary of Commerce for Intelle...
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Blog about the USPTO from the Department of Commerce Ed. note: This post is part of the Spotlight on Commerce series highlighting the contributions of Department of Commerce employees during W...
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BLOG ABOUT THE USPTO FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Earlier this year, the National Inventors Hall of Fame, in partnership with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), announced the 201...
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Blog about the USPTO from the Department of Commerce Ed. note: This post is part of the Spotlight on Commerce series highlighting the contributions of Department of Commerce employees during B...
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Guest blog by Commissioner for Patents Drew Hirshfeld and Deputy Commissioner for Patent Operations Andy Faile In 2017, the USPTO’s Technology Centers held ten Patents Customer Partnership Me...
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Guest blog by Chief Administrative Trademark Judge Gerard Rogers and Administrative Trademark Judge Susan Hightower Employees of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) like to say: “We h...
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Guest blog by Director of the Texas Regional United States Patent and Trademark Office Hope Shimabuku During the week of December 4, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to travel through th...
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Guest Blog by Chief Administrative Patent Judge of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board David Ruschke The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (Board) has been conducting America Invents Act (AIA) tria...
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Guest Blog by Commissioner for Patents Drew Hirshfeld Launched in 2015, the eCommerce Modernization (eMod) Project aims to improve the electronic application process for patent applicants by m...
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A blog about the USPTO from the Department of Commerce. Leveraging open data is a priority for the Trump Administration , as part of its long-term commitment to modernize government and as a k...
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Guest Blog by Chief Administrative Trademark Judge Gerard F. Rogers The public counts on the accuracy and integrity of the U.S. Trademark Register when selecting and clearing new marks, so as t...
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Guest blog by Commissioner for Patents Drew Hirshfeld and Chief Judge of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board David Ruschke The USPTO is celebrating the culmination of a multi-year effort to secur...
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Guest blog by Director of the Silicon Valley Regional U.S. Patent and Trademark Office John Cabeca I recently had the opportunity to join several of the USPTO’s intellectual property (IP) att...
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Blog by Joe Matal, Performing the Duties and Functions of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Throughout history, independent inventors have tran...
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A blog about the USPTO from the Department of Commerce. The future of American innovation was on display November 3rd at the 2017 Collegiate Inventors Competition held at the U.S. Patent and ...
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A blog post about the USPTO from the Department of Commerce . Americans will spend an estimated 9.1 billion dollars on Halloween this year , and yet many trick-or-treaters remain unaware that t...
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Blog about the USPTO from the Department of Commerce Ed. note: This post is part of the Spotlight on Commerce series highlighting contributions of Department of Commerce employees during His...
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Guest blog by Director of the Rocky Mountain Regional U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Molly Kocialski Today’s small businesses and entrepreneurs are faced with many decisions as they pursue ...
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Blog by Joe Matal, Performing the Functions and Duties of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Patents for Humanity, the USPTO’s top honor for p...
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Blog by Joe Matal, Performing the Functions and Duties of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO As students are starting the school year, teachers ...
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Guest blog by Director of the Texas Regional U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Hope Shimabuku Overseas markets present some of the best economic opportunities for U.S. companies, and at the same...
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A blog about the USPTO from the Department of Commerce Small businesses and independent inventors both serve a vital role in our nation’s economy. And, helping those with limited resources i...
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Guest Blog by Commissioner for Trademarks Mary Boney Denison Some trademark applicants and registrants have paid fees to private companies while mistakenly thinking they were paying fees requir...
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Blog by Joe Matal, Performing the Functions and Duties of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO At Camp Invention , almost two million students hav...
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Blog by Joe Matal, Performing the Functions and Duties of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO This week, the USPTO published a new report synthe...
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A blog post about the USPTO from the Department of Commerce Increasingly, we’re seeing the products of additive manufacturing – better known as 3D printing – all around us: in retail st...
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Blog by Joe Matal, Performing the Functions and Duties of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO, and Christal Sheppard, Director of the Midwest Regio...
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Guest blog by Chief Policy Officer and Director for International Affairs Shira Perlmutter U.S. businesses own an estimated $5 trillion worth of trade secrets . Their theft, involving losses in...
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Guest blog by Commissioner for Trademarks Mary Denison In late May, I attended the TM5 mid-term meeting in Barcelona hosted by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). The TM5 ...
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A post about the USPTO from the Department of Commerce Ed. note: This post is part of the Spotlight on Commerce series highlighting the contributions of current and past members of the Departm...
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A blog about the USPTO from the Department of Commerce On May 4, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) inducted fifteen of America’s greatest innovators into the National Inv...
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A blog about the USPTO from the Department of Commerce . Helping small businesses and independent inventors with limited resources is an important goal of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (...
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Guest blog by Commissioner for Patents Drew Hirshfeld and Deputy General Counsel William R. Covey The USPTO has worked closely with intellectual property law associations to establish a network...
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A blog about the USPTO from the Department of Commerce . This month marks the centennial of the United States’ entry into World War I on April 6, 1917, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Offic...
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A blog about the USPTO from the Department of Commerce . On April 26, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) celebrated World Intellectual Property (IP) day in Washington D.C., as well as...
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A post about the USPTO from the Department of Commerce Guest blog by Pam Isom, Director of the Office of Application Engineering and Development, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office As Director...
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A post about the USPTO from the Department of Commerce Women inventors and scientists have made lasting contributions to our nation’s history, but why is it that many people are unable to na...
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Guest blog by Commissioner for Patents Drew Hirshfeld Recently, the National Inventors Hall of Fame, in partnership with the USPTO, announced the 2017 National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees....
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee Making patent data accessible to the public has been a cornerstone of this agency’s pol...
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Guest blog by Chief Information Officer John B. Owens II The USPTO recently launched a new tool to improve how you manage your intellectual property portfolio. With one single sign on, you can ...
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Guest Blog by Chief Financial Officer Tony Scardino I’m pleased to announce that the USPTO has published its Performance and Accountability Report (PAR) for fiscal year (FY) 2016 . The PAR ...
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Guest blog by Chief Policy Officer and Director for International Affairs Shira Perlmutter Representatives from the USPTO and the intellectual property offices of the European Union, Japan, Kor...
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Guest blog by Commissioner for Trademarks Mary Boney Denison The USPTO has worked hard to fight solicitations from companies fraudulently promising to protect trademarks, and we have taken a nu...
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Guest blog by Commissioner for Trademarks Mary Boney Denison USPTO regional offices support the agency’s mission of fostering innovation by serving their regions’ intellectual property (IP...
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Guest blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Russ Slifer It is critically important that the USPTO issue patents that are of the h...
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A post about the USPTO from the Department of Commerce This year’s winners of the Patents for Humanity Award found new and innovative ways to administer and provide health care solutions in...
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A post about the USPTO from the Department of Commerce U.S. companies may understand how to handle their intellectual property (IP) interests within the United States, but selling products and...
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Guest blog by Chief Judge for the Patent and Trial Appeal Board David Ruschke and Commissioner for Patents Drew Hirshfeld As part of the USPTO’s ongoing Enhanced Patent Quality Initiative , i...
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Guest Blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director Russ Slifer The USPTO is committed to issuing the highest quality patents possible, as evidenced b...
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Guest blog by Chief Technology Officer David Chiles Improving the way the government delivers information technology (IT) solutions to its customers isn’t just a goal, it’s our mission. We ...
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Guest blog by Chief Administrative Officer Fred Steckler “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,” Thomas Jefferson once wrote. In the United States that price has been paid by generat...
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A post about the USPTO from the Department of Commerce Standing on stage this past Friday, inventors from colleges and universities across the country were recognized for their work developing...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee I’m pleased to report that we have completed the Clarity of the Record Pilot launched ...
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Guest blog by Chief Information Officer John Owens II As the year comes to a close, it is a perfect time to reflect on our current successes, and challenge ourselves to continually improve our ...
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Guest blog by Chief Administrative Trademark Judge Gerard F. Rogers The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) announced the culmination of an in-depth outreach effort to stakeholders focused ...
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A post about the USPTO from the Department of Commerce Innovation comes in all shapes and forms, and every October the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) uses social media as a fun and ...
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Guest blog by Commissioner for Trademarks Mary Boney Denison I am pleased to invite you to attend the 2016 National Trademark Expo on Friday October 21st and Saturday October 22nd in Washington...
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Guest blog by Russ Slifer, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO President Obama’s historic announcement, just two years ago, paved a n...
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Guest Blog from Commissioner for Trademarks Mary Boney Denison When selecting a mark for a new product or service, a business will search the USPTO database of registered marks to determine whe...
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Guest Blog by Director of the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity and Diversity Bismarck Myrick USPTO’s mission, providing timely and high quality examination of patent and trademark appli...
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Guest blog by Commissioner for Patents Drew Hirshfeld and Chief Judge of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board David Ruschke The Patent and Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) organizations contin...
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Guest Blog by Dana Robert Colarulli, Director of the Office of Governmental Affairs We’ve come a long way in five years. The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) , signed in 2011 by Presiden...
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Guest blog by Deputy Commissioner for Patent Quality Valencia Martin Wallace One important component of the USPTO’s commitment to achieve greater accuracy, clarity, and consistency in examina...
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Guest blog by Will Covey, Deputy General Counsel and John Kirkpatrick, Patent Pro Bono Coordinator Five years ago, President Obama signed the America Invents Act (AIA) into law, bringing sweepi...
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Guest blog by Mark Powell, Deputy Commissioner for International Patent Cooperation As part of our continuing efforts to improve patent examination quality and efficiency, the USPTO will host a...
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Guest Blog by Chief of Staff of the USPTO Vikrum Aiyer and Senior Advisor Thomas A. Beach The USPTO is playing an important role in the National Cancer Moonshot , a Presidential initiative we b...
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Guest blog by Chief Communications Officer Patrick Ross Empowering bold entrepreneurship by inventors and businesses drives the U.S. economy in a global marketplace. We at the U.S. Patent and T...
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Guest blog by Chief Policy Officer and Director for International Affairs Shira Perlmutter 3D printing—also known as stereolithography or additive manufacturing—is a printing technology tha...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee I am pleased to announce the launch of the Post-Prosecution Pilot (P3), which was develo...
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Guest Blog by David P. Ruschke, Chief Judge for the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) The USPTO deployed an e-filing system known as the Patent Review Processing System (PRPS) for trials und...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee Anyone who has held the hand of a friend or family member suffering through chemotherapy ...
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Guest blog by Commissioner for Trademarks Mary Boney Denison Our Trademarks Team is leading efforts to meet the continually changing intellectual property environment – by updating our IT sys...
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Guest blog by Deputy Commissioner for Patent Quality Valencia Martin Wallace In December 2015, the USPTO published a Federal Register Notice inviting the public to submit patent-quality relate...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee USPTO regional offices support our core mission of fostering American innovation and comp...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee Innovators of all types, from independent inventors to large corporations, rely on trade ...
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Guest blog by Russ Slifer, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Last week was Public Service Recognition Week, a time for Americans ever...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee The USPTO held an all-day Patent Quality Community Symposium on April 27, 2016, bringing...
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Guest Blog by Acting Chief Administrative Patent Judge Nathan Kelley Regular readers of our blog know of the USPTO’s commitment to seek feedback on how we can improve our programs, procedures...
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Guest blog by Deputy Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy Robert Bahr The USPTO is committed to providing the most current and robust training for our patent examiners, and we have just r...
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Guest blog by Russ Slifer, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Last week, the USPTO celebrated World IP Day in the Washington, D.C. reg...
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Guest Blog by Chief Administrative Trademark Judge Gerard F. Rogers In early March 2016, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) held a Users’ Forum in Alexandria, Va., which focused on t...
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Guest Blog by Chief Financial Officer Tony Scardino For several years, the USPTO has been making significant progress in modernizing its information technology (IT) infrastructure and tools for...
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Guest blog by Russ Slifer, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) After extensive public outre...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee Through the Enhanced Patent Quality Initiative (EPQI) which we announced in February 201...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee Last week, I traveled to Texas to promote the USPTO’s resources for innovators, entrepr...
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Guest blog by Russ Slifer, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Teachers across the country ...
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Guest blog by Russ Slifer, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) The big East Coast snowstorm...
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Guest Blog by Chief Financial Officer Tony Scardino Each year, the USPTO submits a budget justification to Congress in order to obtain authority to spend the patent and trademark fees we collec...
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Guest blog by Deputy Commissioner for Patent Quality Valencia Martin Wallace The USPTO is dedicated to providing the best work products and services at every stage of the patent process. Over t...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee After much excitement in the last few months of 2015 with the opening of our final two r...
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Guest Blog by Commissioner for Trademarks Mary Boney Denison The USPTO is dedicated to working closely and regularly with its trademark office counterparts worldwide to cooperate on processes a...
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Guest blog by Deputy Director Russell Slifer I wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of our stakeholders and employees for their patience and support as we worked to repair USPTO operati...
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Guest Blog by Tony Scardino, Chief Financial Officer I’m pleased to announce that the USPTO has published its Performance and Accountability Report (PAR) for fiscal year (FY) 2015 . The PAR...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee It’s been a momentous time for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in recent weeks, as...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee Patent quality is central to fulfilling a core mission of the USPTO, which as stated in t...
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Guest blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Russ Slifer With startup activity in the United States surging and small inventors ch...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee People have asked us for more information on the patents petition process, and based on t...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee When the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act of 2011 (AIA) created three new kinds of post-pa...
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Guest Blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Russ Slifer I’m excited to let you know about one of our newest initiatives, eComme...
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Guest Blog by Director of the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity and Diversity Bismarck Myrick At the United States Patent and Trademark Office, (USPTO) we derive our strength from the vast...
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Guest blog by Chief Policy Officer and Director for International Affairs Shira Perlmutter Under the U.S.-Brazil Commercial Dialogue IPR working group, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USP...
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Guest Blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Russ Slifer The USPTO recently launched a new pilot program that will allow appellant...
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Guest blog by Deputy Commissioner for Patent Quality Valencia Martin Wallace I am encouraged that we have received more than 1,100 comments and suggestions about our Enhanced Patent Quality Ini...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee It’s an exciting time for our four regional offices as we are reaching entrepreneurs ac...
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Guest blog by Chief Policy Officer and Director for International Affairs Shira Perlmutter USPTO IP attachés provide valuable assistance to U.S. stakeholders doing business overseas by advisin...
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Guest blog by Commissioner for Patents Peggy Focarino As many of you know, I will be retiring from the USPTO at the end of the month after 38 years of service. I started my career here as a pat...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee It was clear during my recent trip to Beijing, China, that the timing for the visit could...
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Guest Blog by Mary Boney Denison, Commissioner for Trademarks The USPTO is dedicated to serving the public in the most efficient and cost-effective manner possible. In January 2015 we implemen...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee Helping small businesses and independent inventors with limited resources is an important...
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Guest blog by Commissioner for Patents Peggy Focarino In direct response to feedback we’ve received from the public, we have updated our online Patents Dashboard . The Patents Dashboard is on...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee Input from the public is invaluable to us so we can best serve the needs of our innovatio...
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Guest blog by Chief Information Officer John Owens The USPTO recently launched a critical new tool for patent examiners, marking the beginning of the retirement of certain legacy IT tools, and ...
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Guest Blog by Chief Administrative Trademark Judge Gerard F. Rogers In early 2015, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) held two public events, an Electronic System for Trademark Trials ...
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Blog by USPTO Commissioner for Patents Peggy Focarino On January 1, 2015, the USPTO successfully transitioned to the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) system from the United States Patent...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee At the end of March, the USPTO engaged in a productive exchange of ideas with the public ...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee We’ve been working on a number of exciting initiatives at the USPTO that will benefit m...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee In observance of Women’s History Month, the USPTO is celebrating the generations of wom...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee In recent appearances before the Technology Policy Institute and the IPO Education Found...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee Three years ago, we started expanding USPTO operations across the country to Dallas, Denv...
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Guest Blog by Chief Financial Officer Tony Scardino Each year, the USPTO submits a budget justification to Congress in order to access the resources we need to operate. I’m pleased to announc...
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Guest blog by Chief Policy Officer and Director for International Affairs Shira Perlmutter On January 8, 2015, the USPTO held a trade secret symposium at USPTO headquarters in Alexandria, Virgi...
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Blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee As improving patent quality lies at the core of the U.S. Patent and Tradema...
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Blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee I’m excited to let you know about our newly redesigned website that impr...
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Guest blog by Chief Information Officer John Owens The start of a new year is a perfect time to reflect on our current successes, and challenge ourselves to continually improve our information ...
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Guest blog by Chief Policy Officer and Director for International Affairs Shira Perlmutter On Wednesday, November 19, 2014, the USPTO hosted a roundtable on International Harmonization of Subst...
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Guest blog by USPTO Commissioner for Patents Peggy Focarino Following the valuable feedback that we received from the public through written comments and multiple public meetings over the last...
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Guest Blog by Tony Scardino, Chief Financial Officer I’m pleased to announce the USPTO has published its Performance and Accountability Report (PAR) for fiscal year (FY) 2014 . The PAR serves...
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Blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee In an era where our stakeholders’ businesses are rapidly evolving and the...
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Blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is committed to assis...
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Blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee Helping small businesses and independent inventors with limited resources i...
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Blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee In February of this year, the White House issued three new executive action...
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Blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee Stakeholder engagement is a critical mission of the USPTO, and I am excited...
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Guest blog by Chief Policy Officer and Director for International Affairs Shira Perlmutter As part of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Internet Policy Task Force, the USPTO and the National ...
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Blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee I’m delighted to welcome our 2014 Thomas Alva Edison Visiting Scholars to...
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Blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee Following President Obama’s 2014 State of the Union call to curb abusive ...
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Blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee The USPTO remains committed to helping America’s inventors, small business...
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Guest blog by USPTO Commissioner for Patents Peggy Focarino Today I would like to address our ongoing implementation of the June 19, 2014, unanimous Supreme Court decision in Alice Corporation...
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Blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee In the spirit of transparency and collaboration with stakeholders in forming...
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Blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee Last June, the White House issued a number of executive actions aimed, in ...
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Blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee Welcome to the latest in a regular series of updates on the status of our ...
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Blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee When President Obama last year announced a handful of executive actions to...
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Guest blog by Commissioner for Trademarks Deborah Cohn Recently, Deputy Director Lee blogged about the status of the USPTO’s operating reserves . I want to tell you more about our proposal to...
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Blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee I’d like to take some time today to follow up a recent guest blog about ...
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Guest blog by Chief Information Officer John Owens Information Technology (IT) is fueling our work in an era of escalating demand for patents and trademarks, and to face this challenge, our tea...
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Blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee The second annual National Day of Civic Hacking will take place on May 31 -...
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Guest blog by Chief Policy Officer and Director for International Affairs Shira Perlmutter In our Green Paper on Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy , the Departm...
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Blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee Transparency and public involvement in building an even better patent system...
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Guest blog by Commissioner for Trademarks Deborah Cohn The results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2014 demonstrate continued high performance by our Trademark team in meeting our strateg...
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Blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee Today I had the opportunity to discuss the importance of intellectual prop...
Blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee What do physicist Charles Hull , chemist Richard DiMarchi , and the late si...
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Guest blog by Chief Policy Officer and Director for International Affairs Shira Perlmutter In the first quarter of fiscal year 2014, the Office of Policy and International Affairs (OPIA) conduc...
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Blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee As we’ve done in the past , I’d like to take a moment to fill you in on ...
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Blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee I’m pleased to announce today the publication of the U.S. Patent and Trad...
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Guest Blog by Chief Financial Officer Tony Scardino I’m pleased to announce that the USPTO has published its fiscal year 2015 Congressional Budget Justification . The USPTO budget is formulat...
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Blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee Protecting and promoting our ideas-driven economy is essential to economic...
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Blog by Commissioner for Patents Peggy Focarino We remain hard at work implementing the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) system launched in January 2013. CPC, let me remind you, is a join...
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Blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Michelle Lee Today I had the opportunity to update the public on the USPTO’s continuing e...
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Blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Michelle Lee Over the last five years, working in concert with Congress and the Obama admin...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/moving_forward_in_2014
Blog by Commissioner for Patents Peggy Focarino This week, the non-profit Partnership for Public Service (PPS) released its annual Best Places to Work in the Federal Government® rankings, and...
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Guest blog by USPTO Commissioner for Patents Peggy Focarino The USPTO continues to use ever-more efficient electronic publication tools. The latest example of this is its revised process to upd...
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Guest blog by Chief Administrative Officer Fred Steckler Ninety-five years ago, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the “war to end all wars” came to an end. Ori...
Guest blog by Chief Policy Officer and Director for International Affairs Shira Perlmutter ***UPDATE OCTOBER 11, 2013: THE PUBLIC MEETING HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO DECEMBER 12, 2013 AND THERE HAV...
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Guest blog by Chief Policy Officer and Director for International Affairs Shira Perlmutter The Global Intellectual Property Academy (Academy) of the USPTO’s Office of Policy and External Affa...
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Guest blog by Commissioner for Trademarks Deborah Cohn This month marks another record performance by our Trademarks team. Our goal to issue a first action between 2.5 and 3.5 months from filin...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/update_on_trademark_performance_from
Guest blog by Chief Policy Officer and Director for International Affairs Shira Perlmutter The Department of Commerce’s Internet Policy Task Force (IPTF) last week issued a green paper on cop...
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Blog by Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director of the USPTO Teresa Stanek Rea Last year we began providing a series of blog updates on the progress of ...
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Blog by Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director of the USPTO Teresa Stanek Rea The USPTO will reach a milestone anniversary tomorrow. July 13 marks one ...
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Blog by Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director of the USPTO Teresa Stanek Rea In an effort to expand our coverage of worldwide patent collections, I am...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/announcing_the_global_patent_search
Blog by Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director of the USPTO Teresa Stanek Rea Today heralds the official release of the Obama Administration’s 2013 J...
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Blog by Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director of the USPTO Teresa Stanek Rea This month, President Obama offered a series of sweeping actions that, al...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/uspto_and_the_obama_administration
Blog by Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director of the USPTO Teresa Stanek Rea As part of our ongoing engagement with China, the USPTO recently hosted t...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/strengthening_our_engagement_with_china
Guest blog by Commissioner for Trademarks Deborah S. Cohn For the last two years the USPTO’s Trademarks team has actively engaged the private sector in developing pro bono and educational out...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/advancing_the_role_of_trademarks
Blog by Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director of the USPTO Teresa Stanek Rea Government has vast amounts of information that can be used to improve ou...
Blog by Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director of the USPTO Teresa Stanek Rea A new chapter has opened in global classification of patent documents. A ...
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Guest blog by Chief Policy Officer and Director for International Affairs Shira Perlmutter The USPTO’s Office of Policy and External Affairs (OPEA), through its Global Intellectual Property A...
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Guest blog by Chief Administrative Trademark Judge Gerard Rogers The USPTO has added more color to its Data Visualization Center with the addition of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB)...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/introducing_our_latest_performance_dashboard
Guest blog by Deputy General Counsel for Enrollment and Discipline Will Covey For many patent attorneys and agents, the Office of Enrollment and Discipline (OED) is a name only seen when regist...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/empowering_current_and_future_ip
Blog by Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director of the USPTO Teresa Stanek Rea The much anticipated First-Inventor-to-File (FITF) provision of the Leahy-...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/examiner_training_continues_on_first
Blog by Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director of the USPTO Teresa Stanek Rea President Obama’s signature on the Patent Law Treaties Implementation A...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/a_new_chapter_for_protection
Blog by Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director of the USPTO Teresa Stanek Rea During the last few years the USPTO has developed and implemented many si...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/wanted_your_ideas_and_feedback
Blog by Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director of the USPTO Teresa Stanek Rea I’m happy to report that the first year of our Thomas Alva Edison Visit...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos As many readers know, I've served on the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on IP ...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos Many IP issues in China receive high-profile attention in the media. However, quiet efforts ...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/working_together_on_chinese_trademark
Guest blog by Commissioner for Trademarks Deborah Cohn It’s time again to share with you our Trademarks performance metrics for the last quarter, and I hope you’re as pleased as we are with...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/trademark_dashboard_for_quarter_1
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos I write frequently about patent quality. Quality increases certainty and strengthens the who...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/using_a_data_driven_approach
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos We talk a lot and do a lot at USPTO about patent quality. We also talk a lot and do a lot ab...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/interviews_and_patent_quality
Guest blog by Commissioner for Trademarks Deborah Cohn We recently introduced a new, more user-friendly interface for the Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure (TMEP). If you haven’t had th...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/big_improvements_to_our_online
Guest Blog by Dana Colarulli, Director, Office of Governmental Affairs While the 112th Congress will be focusing much of its attention on more prominent issues before it adjourns, a “technica...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/congress_acts_on_aia_corrections
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos We’re making steady progress in our efforts to get all of our satellite offices up and run...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/progress_continues_at_our_four
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos Today marks three months since some of the key new mechanisms of the AIA went into effect. ...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/a_status_update_on_use
Guest blog by Chief Administrative Officer Frederick Steckler Today our agency had the great honor to be named one of the U.S. Federal Government’s Best Places to Work today by the non-profi...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/uspto_named_one_of_federal
Guest blog by Chief Policy Officer and Director for International Affairs Shira Perlmutter As many of you know, the USPTO’s Patents for Humanity program —to incentivize the use of patented ...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/leahy_coons_patents_for_humanity
Guest Blog by Tony Scardino, Chief Financial Officer The USPTO has published its Performance and Accountability Report (PAR) for fiscal year (FY) 2012. Think of the PAR as our annual report, s...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/uspto_releases_its_fy_2012
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos “It is probably safe to say this week did not turn out like anyone had originally planned....
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/a_day_like_any_other
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos Today I’d like to take up a topic that affects many of us, and one that is getting signifi...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/uspto_harmonizes_professional_conduct_rules
Guest blog by USPTO Commissioner for Trademarks Deborah Cohn We’ve sorted through the facts and figures and at the end of our fiscal year September 30, we’re proud to report continued outst...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/another_banner_year_for_trademarks
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos The World Intellectual Property Organization hosts its Fiftieth Series of Meetings of the As...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/claim_your_exemption
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos Recently, some commentators have questioned whether the new Patent Trial and Appeal Board ca...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/ptab_and_patentability_challenges
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos On Sept 10, 2012 the USPTO was privileged to host Minister Zhou Bohua and his senior delegat...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/china_s_saic_minister_zhou
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos I thought I'd write to observe the occasion of the first submissions to our new Patent Trial...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/ptab_submissions_have_commenced
Guest Blog by Chief Judge James D. Smith, Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences September 16, 2012 marks a momentous occasion for the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. On that da...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/announcing_the_patent_trial_and
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos It has been a few months since we announced we would be opening three new USPTO satellite of...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/progress_report_on_satellite_office
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos Efficiency drives innovation, and the USPTO is determined to offer innovators the most effic...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/announcing_text2pto_online_filing_of
Guest blog by Deputy Director Teresa Stanek Rea Our first-ever USPTO satellite office is off and running. I saw evidence of that first-hand after a recent, post-opening visit to the Elijah J. M...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/up_and_running_in_detroit
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos The USPTO’s mission is empowering U.S. innovators to protect great ideas with patents and ...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/got_an_idea_as_big
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos Imagine having a single, global portal for all stakeholders working on patent filings in mul...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/introducing_the_global_dossier_initiative
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos The recent Federal Circuit decision CLS Bank International v. Alice Corporation raises some ...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/some_thoughts_on_patentability
Guest blog by USPTO Commissioner for Trademarks Deborah Cohn Our dashboard showcasing performance in Trademarks for the third quarter of the fiscal year is out and you’ll notice that we adde...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/trademark_dashboard
Guest blog by USPTO Commissioner for Trademarks Deborah Cohn The USPTO has been co-hosting roundtable discussions with the International Trademark Association (INTA) since January. The purpose ...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/uspto_and_inta_roundtable_discussions
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos Continuing our series on implementation of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA), allow ...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/methodology_for_appeal_fees
Guest blog by USPTO Commissioner for Patents Peggy Focarino I am pleased to report that Deputy Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy Drew Hirshfeld issued a memorandum to all patent examin...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/new_examing_procedure_related_to
Guest blog by Deputy Director Teresa Stanek Rea Last week, I had the distinct honor to testify in front of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Interne...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/uspto_on_the_hill_supporting
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos Thanks to the tireless efforts of our colleagues in the European Union, and the leadership o...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/paving_the_way_toward_the
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos In a landmark development for the multilateral intellectual property (IP) system, United Sta...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/a_milestone_in_protecting_creative
Guest blog by USPTO Commissioner for Patents Peggy Focarino It was my great pleasure to speak at the second annual FIRST® LEGO® League Global Innovation Award ceremony earlier this week. The...
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos In pursuing our mission to ensure the highest possible level of patent quality, the USPTO ha...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/ensuring_quality_inter_partes_and
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos Today I'd like to return to our work on patent classification. With the planning and develop...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/top_reasons_why_uspto_is
Guest blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Teresa Stanek Rea Today at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Va., t...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/eleven_new_judges_join_board
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos The USPTO and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit May 28-30 co-sponsored an in...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/china_as_an_ip_stakeholder
Guest blog by Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO Teresa Stanek Rea Currently, the USPTO has two principal ways of challenging granted ...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/building_a_better_post_grant
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos As USPTO continues to work toward improving effectiveness, a key to maintaining progress wil...
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos If you missed our wonderful exhibit—The Patents and Trademarks of Steve Jobs: Art and Tech...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/uspto_exhibit_on_steve_jobs
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos USPTO is making it a major focus to actively engage and have regular conversations with our ...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/gao_a_helpful_partner_on
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos One of our stars here at the USPTO was honored this morning for her excellent work as a publ...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/uspto_official_honored_for_public
Guest blog by Acting Administrator for Policy and External Affairs Shira Perlmutter As fiscal year 2012 moves forward, the Office of Policy and External Affairs (OPEA) continues to make great ...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/continued_success_in_improving_the
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos The Board of Appeals and Interferences (BPAI), like other areas within the USPTO, have exper...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/bpai_reducing_the_backlog
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos This entry in our series on implementation of the America Invents Act (AIA) focuses on the p...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/the_role_of_submission_limits
Guest blog by Commissioner for Trademarks Debbie Cohn This month marks a record for performance by our Trademarks team. It has now been five consecutive years that first action pendency has sta...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/record_results_for_trademark_pendency
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos April is Celebrate Diversity Month, and in the spirit of this month, I want to take this opp...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/we_mean_business_about_diversity
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos You may remember that last November USPTO launched a new feature called eTerminal Disclaimer...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/electronic_terminal_disclaimers_now_get
Guest blog by USPTO Commissioner for Patents Peggy Focarino One of my challenges as Commissioner for Patents is providing my senior leadership team with the tools and flexibility they need to m...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/realignment_in_the_office_of
Guest Blog by USPTO Chief Administrative Officer Patricia Richter USPTO is on the move. The enactment of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act has allowed the USPTO to launch several transformati...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/recruiting_for_innovation
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos Returning to our series on America Invents Act (AIA) implementation, I’d like to focus tod...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/an_efficient_ip_system_that
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos This week marks the second anniversary of the National Export Initiative (NEI), established...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/national_export_initiative_second_anniversary
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos This is the first in a series of blogs we'll use to explore aspects of USPTO's proposed rule...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/comparing_uspto_s_new_post
Guest blog by Acting Administrator for Policy and External Affairs Shira Perlmutter Recently I joined the USPTO as Acting Administrator for Policy and External Affairs. In this role I lead the...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/policy_and_external_affairs_dashboard
Guest blog by USPTO Commissioner for Patents Peggy Focarino The Patents Dashboard for the month of January has been released and is posted on our website and I am pleased to report on our stat...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/january_patents_dashboard_review
Guest blog by Deputy Director Teresa Stanek Rea It was about one year ago that I was appointed Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the United Sta...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/in_celebration_of_women_entrepreneurs
Guest blog by Deputy Director Teresa Stanek Rea As some of you may know, USPTO’s responsibilities under the American Inventor’s Protection Act (AIPA) include advising the president and othe...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/supporting_ip_a_global_challenge
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos Throughout history, innovation has been the driving force behind improving the human conditi...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/finding_america_s_top_innovators
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos Every year, Black History Month provides a golden opportunity for employees of the United St...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/in_celebration_of_black_history
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos Sweeping revolutions in technology continue to fundamentally redefine the way we connect wit...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/patents_for_humanity
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos In an era where bitter partisan divide can often inhibit action in Washington, one need look...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/no_time_for_gridlock_at
Guest blog by Commissioner for Trademarks Debbie Cohn There’s no question that electronic filing has changed the nature of trademarks, and a look at our performance dashboard for the first ...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/remarkable_performance_results_in_trademarks
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos In recent years, the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) has proven to be one of the most signi...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/the_patent_prosecution_highway_scaling
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos Happy New Year and welcome back from what I hope was a restful holiday break! As I wrote ...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/full_speed_ahead_for_2012
Guest blog by USPTO Commissioner for Patents Peggy Focarino Following passage of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act in September 2011, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) be...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/uspto_track_i_the_agency
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos As December draws to a close and we reflect on all that we’ve accomplished, it’s difficu...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/a_look_back_at_2011
Guest blog by USPTO Commissioner for Patents Bob Stoll Earlier this month, with a mixture of excitement and sadness, I submitted my letter of resignation as Commissioner for Patents, effectiv...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/a_farewell_message
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos I have some good news to share about our efforts to improve the retention of patent examiner...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/investing_in_our_newest_employees
Guest blog by Chief Administrative Patent Judge James Donald Smith As the Chief Judge of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, I am excited to be working with Director Kappos and Deput...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/simplifying_the_ex_parte_appeals
Guest blog by Deputy Director Teresa Stanek Rea I find it hard to believe that I have been at the USPTO for almost ten months. When I started here at the USPTO, I knew I would be a part of a gr...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/our_growing_partnership_with_china
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos Helping the next generation of IP professionals learn to practice before the USPTO, our Law ...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/aiding_our_future_ip_practitioners
Guest blog by Al Tramposch, OPEA Administrator The 2011 fiscal year recently came to a close and the Office of Policy and External Affairs (OPEA) is excited to share its progress in strengthen...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/office_of_policy_and_external
Guest blog by Commissioner for Trademarks Debbie Cohn The USPTO first introduced the Trademarks Dashboard this past year with quarterly updates to trademark metrics. This month, we are please...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/fourth_quarter_trademarks_dashboard_overview
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos I thought I would return to the topic of patent quality, a topic that frankly can’t get en...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/quality_continues_to_rise
Guest blog by USPTO Commissioner for Patents Bob Stoll The Patent Dashboard showing our performance for the month of August has been released and is on our website . We have added several new q...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/august_patents_dashboard_overview
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos In the past 50 years, we have seen technology evolve at a faster pace than any other period ...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/re_inventing_the_us_patent
Guest blog by USPTO Commissioner for Patents Bob Stoll In March we began offering petitioners the option to automate the filing and decision process for eight patent-related petition types thro...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/improved_efficiency_with_epetitions
Guest blog by Deputy Director Teresa Stanek Rea I just recently returned from a very interesting and extensive two-week trip to China, my first trip there as Deputy Director of the USPTO. I vi...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/report_from_china_and_a
Guest blog by USPTO Commissioner for Patents Bob Stoll Looking at today’s sophisticated high-definition television sets it is hard to imagine that their very foundation could have ever been ...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/rural_america_wellspring_of_innovation
Guest blog by USPTO Commissioner for Patents Bob Stoll Last month we announced how our backlog of patent applications awaiting first office action by examiners dropped below 700,000 in June, a...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/first_office_action_backlog_dips1
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos Early last year, we launched our Patents Ombudsman Pilot Program as part of our strategic pr...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/patents_ombudsman_pilot_program_to
Guest blog by Al Tramposch, OPEA Administrator Although the USPTO campus is located in Alexandria, Virginia, its voice is heard around the world. The Office of Policy and External Affairs (OPEA...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/dashboard_update_office_of_policy
Guest Blog by USPTO Commissioner for Trademarks Debbie Cohn The USPTO introduced the Trademarks Dashboard for the first time in May to provide quarterly access to trademark metrics. This mont...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/trademarks_dashboard_overview
Guest blog by USPTO Commissioner for Patents Bob Stoll You’ll catch a major milestone on our updated patents dashboard in the USPTO Data Visualization Center . Our June numbers will show you...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/first_office_action_backlog_dips
Guest blog by Deputy Director Teresa Stanek Rea I would like to tell you about our recent trip to Tokyo, Japan to participate in the IP5 Deputy Heads and Heads of Offices meetings. The IP5 is ...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/report_from_the_ip5_meeting
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos As I travel across the country and speak to our stakeholders, I have received many positive ...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/interview_program_continues_to_find
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos On June 8, it was my pleasure to participate in the kick-off of the Minnesota Pilot Pro-bono...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/new_pilot_program_to_provide
Guest Blog by USPTO Commissioner for Patents Bob Stoll The Patents dashboard May updates are now posted on uspto.gov . Because the USPTO strives to make our operations and goals transparent, t...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/may_patents_dashboard_overview
Guest blog by Peter Pappas, Chief Communications Officer Over the past year, the USPTO has made significant strides in increasing and broadening our engagement with the intellectual property co...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/update_on_communications_and_public
Guest blog by Al Tramposch, OPEA Administrator As the USPTO official responsible for leading our domestic and international policy efforts, I am delighted to be working with Dave Kappos and Ter...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/profile_the_office_of_policy
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos The end of the school year is upon us, and so is the period for accepting applications to pa...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/where_academia_meets_real_world
Guest Blog by USPTO Commissioner for Patents Bob Stoll The dashboard for the month of April has been released and is ready to be viewed on our website . Despite the uncertainties associated wit...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/april_dashboard_overview
Guest Blog by USPTO Deputy Director Teresa Stanek Rea A copy of this post also appeared on the White House Blog In his January State of the Union, President Barack Obama outlined the importa...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/hearing_from_entrepreneurs_around_the
Guest Blog by Commissioner for Trademarks Deborah Cohn The USPTO launched its first Data Visualization Center Dashboard in October to provide access to patent application and pendency. This m...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/introducing_the_trademarks_dashboard
Guest Blog by Administrator for Policy and External Affairs Albert Tramposch The Office of Policy and External Affairs assists the USPTO Director in advising the President, through the Secretar...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/introducing_the_office_of_policy
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos As you may know, the FY 2011 budget was enacted on April 15, 2011 and contains the USPT...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/an_update_on_the_uspto
Special Guest Blog by USPTO Commissioner for Patents Bob Stoll The dashboard for the month of March has been released and is ready to be viewed on our website . Despite the uncertainties associ...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/march_dashboard_overview
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos One of our top priorities at USPTO is to ensure that we have a well-trained workforce. Our�...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/update_on_the_patent_examiner
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos I’d like to discuss patent petitions in general, and in particular, petition decision...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/automating_petitions_handling_to_improve
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos I had the great pleasure of being in Austin, Texas last weekend for something new and specia...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/impressions_from_sxsw
Special Guest Blog by USPTO Commissioner for Patents Bob Stoll The dashboard for the month of February has been released and is on our website . />We have added a new quality measure, “Qual...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/new_quality_measure_added_to
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos In honor of Women’s History Month, I’d like to take a moment to talk about women’s con...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/uspto_symposium_march_11_to
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos Today I thought I would offer my thinking on a topic that is getting a lot of attention thes...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/patent_reform_good_for_innovation
Special Guest Blog by USPTO Commissioner for Patents Bob Stoll The USPTO Data Visualization Center – otherwise known as “The Dashboard”—continues to be positively received by our ...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/january_patents_dashboard_changes_and
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos Many independent inventors and small businesses have discovered that there is a free resourc...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/a_new_model_for_patent
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos We were recently honored to have EPO President Benoît Battistelli address the staff of the ...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/the_patent_cooperation_treaty_and
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos Since my first days at the USPTO, I’ve been committed to modernizing our outdated IT infra...
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos If you’ve been following along with my blog for a while, you already know we’ve been loo...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/reengineering_the_mpep_part_3
Special Guest Blog by USPTO Commissioner for Patents Bob Stoll In July, I wrote about RCE filings in response to applicant concerns and discussed in detail the whys and hows of RCE filing. I...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/new_pendency_measures_and_an
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos As the Patents organization moves toward its goal of reducing the average total pende...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/improving_key_patent_processes_and
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos As the end of the year approaches, I’d like to reflect on our accomplishments in the areas...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/expanding_our_communications_and_public
SPECIAL GUEST BLOG BY USPTO COMMISSIONER FOR PATENTS BOB STOLL Traditional first action pendency declined again to an average of 24.9 months for November from 25.4 months in October. In ...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/great_progress_on_goals
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos This past Friday, December 3, the USPTO welcomed members of AIPLA , IPO , INTA and me...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/enhancing_electronic_communications_for_trademarks
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos Recently we announced the extension of the deadline to participate in the USPTO’s Gr...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/expansion_of_the_uspto_s
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos You may recall our recent efforts to streamline the appeals process by vesting the Board wi...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/proposed_rulemaking_to_simplify_and
Special Guest Blog by USPTO Commissioner for Patents Bob Stoll The latest figures from the USPTO show that during the past month there was a continued improvement in traditional first acti...
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/first_action_pendency_and_rces
Special Guest Blog by USPTO Deputy Director Sharon Barner Director Kappos and I are pleased to announce the release of the final version of the USPTO 2010-2015 STRATEGIC PLAN at www.uspto.gov/s...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos Last month, I asked both USPTO staff and our external stakeholders to provide input on ...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos It is great to see the comments we’ve received since posting the initial Data/> Visual...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos If you are in the Washington, D.C., area on October 15 and 16, be sure to stop by the United...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos On Wednesday, I met with employees at the USPTO headquarters to personally thank them for th...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos Increased globalization has taken its toll on IP Offices throughout the world. We see the ...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos It has been just over one year since I was sworn-in as Director of the United States Patent ...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos As you all know, reducing the backlog of unexamined patent applications and driving patent p...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos With this blog I wanted to return to the topic of patent quality. We talk all the tim...
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos I hope, and think it’s safe to say we are in a time of increased optimism here at the...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos Today I'm happy to report that something really important and positive happened last we...
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SPECIAL GUEST BLOG BY COMMISSIONER FOR PATENTS BOB STOLL To address recent inquires as to whether RCE filings at the USPTO are rising, I asked the Patents team to look into it. Interesting...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos This is a good opportunity to update the topic of telework, for two reasons. First, i...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos By now you have probably heard that the USPTO draft Strategic Plan for 2010-2015 is posted a...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos I’m writing today about a major challenge and opportunity for the USPTO—and for the enti...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos I wanted to follow up on one of my blog postings from a few months ago about ways appli...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos Today, I’d like to share some perspectives on the USPTO’s “Three-Track” proposal for...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos I’d like to focus today on our efforts to improve the reexamination process. Reexamination...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos A few weeks ago, IPLaw 360 published an article titled, “Five Things Patent Examiners...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos By now you’ve no doubt heard about the Agency’s “Ombudsman Program” which was /...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos The written description requirement remains alive and well! On March 22, 2010, the Fe...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos In early February I asked for reader ideas about how we might reengineer the MPEP, and ...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos It was just a spectacular time to be in Washington D.C. last week. The weather was as good a...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos I thought I would let you know about a new streamlined procedure we have instituted for...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos I’d like to focus today on something in the works for Trademarks. One of the g...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos I am pleased to report that a new joint labor and management project is now officially under...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos Today, in a precedential opinion that I was pleased to join as a panel member, the Boa...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos Now here’s some good news for patent holders, and especially for design patent holder...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos It is probably safe to say this week did not turn out like anyone had originally planne...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos Ever since I started at the Agency (in fact, even before I started), examiners and pra...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos For the entire Patent corps, I just wanted to let you know about the outpouring of "Tha...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos My thanks to everyone for their thoughtful comments on my recent SPE – PAP/Award Task Forc...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos Our first-line managers play a critical role in the achievement of USPTO goals. In fact, m...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos Switching gears this week to the “T” in USPTO, one issue trademark practitioners will be...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos Yesterday I participated in a press conference with U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and S...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos I recently gave a speech at the George Washington University School of Law about the USPTO�...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos As you all know, the Supreme Court’s April 2007 decision in KSR v. Teleflex was a land...
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos Today the USPTO is hosting a roundtable on international work sharing. This forum will ...
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Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos My first few months at the USPTO have been exciting and inspiring, and I feel privileged to ...
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