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Commerce Secretary Don Evans to Stress
Importance of Patent Examiners Role in Innovation and Economic Growth
Friday, March 8, 2002
10:00 a.m. (Press must arrive by 9:45 a.m.)
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Patent and Trademark Theatre
2121 Crystal Drive, 2nd Floor
Arlington, VA
As part of the Department of Commerce's Innovation Week, Commerce Secretary
Don Evans will welcome 75 of the nearly 700 new patent examiners being hired
by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) this year to help process
more than 350,000 patent applications filed annually. The Secretary will
stress the strong emphasis President Bush has placed on economic security
and the importance of a patent examiner's role in spurring the advances
in technology that have accounted for 50% of U.S. economic growth since
Word War II.
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