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- In New Orleans and throughout the world: USPTO’s IP attachés and the restorative impact of intellectual property
- Reflections of John Cabeca, USPTO Silicon Valley Regional Director
- USPTO recognizes Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners and inventors
- New report on underrepresented groups in patenting
- Collegiate Inventors Competition winners announced
- Spotlight on Commerce: Megan Miller, Plain Language Writer/Editor
- USPTO issues second Federal Register Notice on artificial intelligence and innovation
- National Disability Employment Awareness Month
- Your feedback is driving improvements to trademark filings and login user experience
- Expansion of prioritized examination
- USPTO meets critical goals to reduce patent examination pendency
- Spotlight on Commerce: Jim Alstrum-Acevedo, Supervisory Patent Examiner, USPTO
- Recent advances in ex parte appeals and hearings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
- Inventors converge at Invention-Con 2019
- Spotlight on Commerce: Tariq Hafiz, Group Director, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- Appeal board hearing availability in the regional offices
- Rocky Mountain Regional U.S. Patent and Trademark Office – 5 years supporting innovation
- USPTO announces Federal Register Notice on artificial intelligence patent issues
- Dog Days of Summer
- Apollo 50: The role of intellectual property in space commerce
- USPTO proposes patent fee adjustments
- Camp Invention prepares tomorrow’s innovators
- For U.S. businesses, the USPTO’s IP attachés are there to help
- Intellectual property resources in your area
- Continuing to improve our IT infrastructure
- National Military Appreciation Month
- Spotlight on Commerce: Charles Kim, Director of the Office of Petitions
- Commerce Secretary Ross Honors 2019 National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees at the National Building Museum
- Celebrating World IP Day
- USPTO employees give back through the Combined Federal Campaign
- Spotlight on Commerce: Laura Peter, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO
- International Women’s Day: Celebrating women in innovation
- Talking IP in the Windy City: The push for innovation and effective IP protection
- USPTO releases 2018 Performance and Accountability Report
- A tribute to veterans
- Passage of the Music Modernization Act
- A look at our new homepage features
- Talking tech with USPTO’s Acting Deputy Chief Information Officer Debbie Stephens
- Spotlight on Commerce: Nestor Ramirez, Technology Center Director, USPTO
- Constitution Week at the USPTO
- A conversation with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar at the 2018 Trademark Expo
- 10 million patents: A celebration of American innovation
- From Seattle to Shanghai: Protecting America's IP at home and abroad
- Innovation is alive and well in 2018
- USPTO Celebrates Women Innovators for World IP Day
- Greetings from Director Iancu
- Spotlight on Commerce: Errica Miller, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- 2018 National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees announced
- Spotlight on Commerce: Bismarck Myrick, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- Successful Track Record of Patents Customer Partnership Meetings
- Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Celebrates 60 Years
- IP Attachés - Providing Resources to Texas Businesses
- PTAB Issues Guidance for Motions to Amend After Aqua Products
- Updates on Modernizing the Electronic Patent Application Process
- Leveraging Open Data to Fuel American Innovation
- Update: Improving the Accuracy of the Trademark Register
- Revised Patent Fee Schedule Finalized
- Traveling with a Group of Global IP “Rock Stars”
- The Importance of Independent Inventors to America – and America’s Economy
- 2017 Collegiate Inventors Competition Winners Announced
- Something Spooky This Way Comes – Strange, Weird and Unsettling IP
- Spotlight on Commerce: Juan Valentin, Education Program Advisor, USPTO
- USPTO and Denver Startup Week – What’s the Connection?
- Patents for Humanity Awards Now Open for Applications
- Training Teachers to Educate the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
- Avoiding Intellectual Property Theft Abroad
- Dream to Reality – Helping Inventors Patent New Technologies
- Federal Agencies Tackling Trademark Scams
- Inspiring Young Minds to be Innovators and Pursue their Dreams
- New Report Presents Viewpoints on Patent Subject Matter Eligibility
- 3D Printing – a New Industry Made in America
- Elijah J. McCoy Midwest Regional U.S. Patent and Trademark Office – 5 Years Supporting Innovation
- One Year On: Developments in the Protection of Trade Secrets
- Update on Global Trademark Harmonization
- Spotlight on Primary Patent Examiner Angela Nguyen
- 2017 Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees Honored at the National Building Museum
- Intellectual Property Resources for Small Businesses
- Patent Pro Bono Volunteer Attorneys Assisting Inventors Across the Country
- Patents and Trademarks of World War One
- Celebrating World IP Day
- Spotlight on Pam Isom, Director of the Office of Application Engineering and Development
- Celebrating Women of Innovation
- 2017 National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees Announced
- More New Ways to Explore Patent Data
- MyUSPTO: Your Personalized Homepage for USPTO Tasks
- USPTO Releases its 2016 Performance and Accountability Report
- Better Protection for Industrial Designs through International Cooperation
- USPTO Fights Fraudulent Trademark Solicitations
- Trademarks Coast to Coast
- Providing Clear and Transparent Patent Quality Metrics
- Patents for Humanity Award Recipients Honored for Work in Providing Global Disease Health Care Solutions
- USPTO Attachés: A Valuable Resource for U.S. Intellectual Property Interests Abroad
- Results of the Post Grant Outcomes Pilot
- Optimizing Patent Examination Time
- New Trademark App Open Source Code on Github
- Celebrating Veterans at the USPTO
- Collegiate Inventors Competition Showcases Tomorrow’s Entrepreneurs
- Results of the Clarity of the Record Pilot
- IT Innovation at the USPTO in 2016
- Enhancements to Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Proceedings
