• Celebrating Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander inventors and entrepreneurs

    https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/celebrating-asian-american-and-native Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. 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 Americans from Asian American and Native... Continue reading

     
  • Three upcoming events for inventors and entrepreneurs you won’t want to miss

    https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/three-upcoming-events-for-inventors 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 Invention-Con 2018 (Photo by Michael Cleveland/USPTO) Are you an aspiring or established inventor,... Continue reading

     
  • You spoke, we listened: easing the transition to DOCX

    https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/you-spoke-we-listened-easing 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; Andrew Faile, Acting Commissioner for Patents; and Jamie Holcombe, Chief Information Officer A... Continue reading

     
  • USPTO highlights trailblazing women inventors in collectible cards

    https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/uspto-highlights-trailblazing-women-inventors Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. 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... Continue reading

     
  • Nominate an inventor for the National Medal of Technology and Innovation

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

     
  • New PTAB resources for inventors

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

     
  • USPTO’s FY 2021 Performance and Accountability Report: A clean bill of financial health

    https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/uspto-s-fy-2021-performance Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. 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 high... Continue reading

     
  • The Trademark Modernization Act: Implementing changes to protect brand owners

    https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/the-trademark-modernization-act-implementing Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. 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 owners... Continue reading

     
  • Apply for a judicial law clerkship at the USPTO by September 10

    https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/apply-for-a-judicial-law Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. Guest Blog by Scott Boalick, Chief Judge of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board Are you interested in launching your career as an intellectual property (IP) practitioner by clerking... Continue reading

     
  • PTAB’s “Fast-Track” pilots available for regular and COVID-19 related ex parte appeals

    https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/ptab-s-fast-track-pilots Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. 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... Continue reading