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Celebrating the National Patent Application Drafting Competition’s winners

https://www.uspto.gov/blog/celebrating-national-patent-application-drafting-competitions-winners Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart (fourth from right, first row) and Acting Commissioner for Patents Valencia Martin Wallace (third from right) with regional finalists in the National Patent Application... Continue reading
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Patent pendency goals: A road map for the future

https://www.uspto.gov/blog/patent-pendency-goals-road-map-future Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. Acting Director Derrick Brent speaks before signing a collective bargaining agreement between the USPTO and National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 243 at the agency’s headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, on... Continue reading
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Trademark Center—a new way to apply to register your trademark

https://www.uspto.gov/blog/trademark-center-new-way-apply-register-your-trademark Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. A photo illustration of the starting page of the USPTO’s new Trademark Center, as depicted on a computer monitor. (Gabriella McNevin/USPTO) We recently shared that on January 18, 2025,... Continue reading
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Quality U.S. patents drive our economy and solve world problems

https://www.uspto.gov/blog/quality-us-patents-drive-our-economy-and-solve-world-problems Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. USPTO Director Kathi Vidal and Deputy Director Derrick Brent speak on July 18, 2024, at an agencywide town hall in the Clara Barton Auditorium at USPTO headquarters in Alexandria,... Continue reading
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Advancing the AIA’s goal to strengthen the U.S. IP system

https://www.uspto.gov/blog/advancing-aias-goal-strengthen-us-ip-system Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. Surrounded by lawmakers, officials, and students, President Barack Obama signs into law the AIA at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia, on September 16,... Continue reading
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Giving thanks to our inventors

https://www.uspto.gov/blog/giving-thanks-our-inventors Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. Educators Patty Lipka of the Cade Museum and the USPTO’s Reggie Duncan make Oobleck out of corn starch. (Screenshot by USPTO) If you’ve ever helped cook a delicious Thanksgiving... Continue reading
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Changing the world through innovation: Celebrating and empowering people with disabilities

https://www.uspto.gov/blog/changing-world-through-innovation-celebrating-and-empowering-people-disabilities Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. A young Camp Invention participant shows Dr. Robert Bryant, a prolific inventor and NASA scientist with a visual disability, a miniature finger-board skate park that she designed, engineered, and... Continue reading
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From military service to the USPTO and back

https://www.uspto.gov/blog/military-service-uspto-and-back Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. Major Kayley Squire as an aide-de-camp during her service in the U.S. Air Force. (Photo courtesy of Kayley Squire) Major Kayley Squire, an Air Force strategic policy fellow and... Continue reading
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Update on USPTO response to CrowdStrike IT outage

https://www.uspto.gov/blog/update-uspto-response-crowdstrike-it-outage Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. USPTO technical staff assist employees affected by the IT outage. (Photo by Michael Connor/USPTO) On behalf of the USPTO, I want to express our gratitude for your patience while... Continue reading
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Celebrating 25 years of USPTO’s Public Advisory Committees

https://www.uspto.gov/blog/celebrating-25-years-usptos-public-advisory-committees Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. President Bill Clinton signs into law an appropriations bill that includes the Patent and Trademark Office Efficiency Act, creating the USPTO Public Advisory Committees (PACs), in the Rose Garden... Continue reading