• One Year On: Developments in the Protection of Trade Secrets

    Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. 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 the... Continue reading

     
  • Patents and Trademarks of World War One

    Patents and Trademarks of World War One 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 Office (USPTO) has taken a look back into its... Continue reading

     
  • Celebrating World IP Day

    Celebrating World IP Day 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 across the country in Houston, Chicago, and Silicon Valley. The theme of this year’s... Continue reading

     
  • Better Protection for Industrial Designs through International Cooperation

    Better Protection for Industrial Designs through International Cooperation 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, Korea, and China—which together account for more than 90 percent of the world’s design patent... Continue reading

     
  • USPTO Attachés: A Valuable Resource for U.S. Intellectual Property Interests Abroad

    USPTO Attachés: A Valuable Resource for U.S. Intellectual Property Interests Abroad 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 being competitive in foreign markets with varied and unfamiliar... Continue reading

     
  • When Patents and Trademarks Go Bump in the Night

    When Patents and Trademarks Go Bump in the Night 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 timely way to educate the public about... Continue reading

     
  • National Trademark Expo October 21-22

    National Trademark Expo October 21-22 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, D.C. The two-day event is free and designed to educate the public about... Continue reading

     
  • Protecting the Rights of American Innovators in Cuba

    Protecting the Rights of American Innovators in Cuba 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 new course of history for a more open U.S.-Cuba relationship—and today the Administration... Continue reading

     
  • USPTO Launches New Jobs Pages and Outreach to Hispanic Millennials

    USPTO Launches New Jobs Pages and Outreach to Hispanic Millennials 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 applications, could be compromised with 18% of our workforce eligible to retire in... Continue reading

     
  • USPTO Proposes Patent and PTAB Fee Adjustments

    USPTO Proposes Patent and PTAB Fee Adjustments 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 continue to identify ways to deliver increasing value to the global intellectual property... Continue reading