To expand inclusive innovation and showcase stories of diverse inventors, we are renaming our Visiting Scholars Program after Dr. Marian Rogers Croak, the pioneering inventor of the technology for virtual phone calls. 

Vote for our PanelPicker sessions August 8-20, 2023!

Beginning July 24, 2023, the USPTO has updated procedures for the interim Director Review (DR) of Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decisions.

The USPTO is seeking public input on the establishment of an additional regional office in the southeast region and four new community outreach offices as authorized by the UAIA.

[T]here is a crucial need for a new era of innovation, and for all of us to unite in helping every potential innovator in our country bring their innovation to impact. We can help make those dreams become reality and, in the process, turbocharge access to the American innovation system for everyone.”
- Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO