• Help us LEAP forward with PTAB assistance for practitioners and inventors

    https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/help-us-leap-forward-with Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. 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 logistics... Continue reading

     
  • AI and inventorship guidance: Incentivizing human ingenuity and investment in AI-assisted inventions

    https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/ai-and-inventorship-guidance-incentivizing Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. 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... Continue reading

     
  • Support for protecting and enforcing your IP in China

    https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/support-for-protecting-and-enforcing Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. 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... Continue reading

     
  • Improving our service to America’s innovators

    https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/improving-our-service-to-america Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. 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 Patent Application... Continue reading

     
  • Tips on taking control of your creative IP

    https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/tips-on-taking-control-of1 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. 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... Continue reading

     
  • Latest updates on artificial intelligence and intellectual property

    https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/latest-updates-on-artificial-intelligence Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. 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... Continue reading

     
  • What to expect from our new trademark search system (and why we’re replacing TESS)

    https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/what-to-expect-from-our Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. 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 us... Continue reading

     
  • How the domicile address requirement advances our trademark anti-fraud efforts

    https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/how-the-domicile-address-requirement Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. 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 We recently issued... Continue reading

     
  • Working globally to address climate change through sustainable innovation

    https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/working-globally-to-address-climate Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. 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... Continue reading

     
  • Supporting our military community

    https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/supporting-our-military-community Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. 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 Base... Continue reading