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- Three upcoming events for inventors and entrepreneurs you won’t want to miss
- You spoke, we listened: easing the transition to DOCX
- Protecting design innovations in new and emerging technologies
- USPTO highlights trailblazing women inventors in collectible cards
- The USPTO’s Patent Pro Bono Program: Promoting equity in innovation since 2011
- Nominate an inventor for the National Medal of Technology and Innovation
- New PTAB resources for inventors
- USPTO creates new programs to provide economic relief during the pandemic
- USPTO’s FY 2021 Performance and Accountability Report: A clean bill of financial health
- The Trademark Modernization Act: Implementing changes to protect brand owners
- Modernizing how we issue patents and trademark registrations
- Ensuring the validity of micro entity certifications – which provide reduced fees to eligible inventors and small businesses
- Apply for a judicial law clerkship at the USPTO by September 10
- USPTO’s comprehensive strategy to fight trademark fraud
- Protecting our trademark customers with federal registration of USPTO marks
- PTAB’s “Fast-Track” pilots available for regular and COVID-19 related ex parte appeals
- Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the national trademark system
- Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves praises USPTO for critical work in promoting American competitiveness, innovation, and ingenuity
- What a huge surge in trademark filings means for applicants
- Global protection and local outreach: How the USPTO’s IP attachés are helping U.S. business interests abroad
- Help us find the next National Medal of Technology and Innovation Laureates
- Modernizing patent filing with DOCX
- Spotlight on Commerce: Hannah Wang, Primary Patent Examiner
- The Trademark Modernization Act: What brand owners need to know
- USPTO concludes successful Women’s Entrepreneurship Symposium
- Spotlight on Commerce: Valencia Martin-Wallace, Deputy Commissioner for Patents, USPTO
- Artificial intelligence tools at the USPTO
- USPTO celebrates American women inventors and entrepreneurs
- The growing importance of international cooperation to the protection of industrial designs
- Spotlight on Commerce: LaRita Jones, Division Chief, Office of Human Resources, USPTO
- Leading the way in the IP economy
- Launch of the National Council for Expanding American Innovation
- A year to remember
- Interview practice and its importance at the USPTO
- USPTO releases FY 2020 Performance and Accountability Report
- Advances in searching for prior art
- PTAB’s Motion to Amend Pilot Program shows promising results
- USPTO fights trademark scams
- Five years of innovation – Texas Regional USPTO
- 2021 National Patent Application Drafting Competition
- Legal Experience and Advancement Program conducts virtual mock arguments
- Fall 2020 brings exciting changes to the Patents organization
- A seamless transition to all-virtual hearings
- Successful failover test ensures the stability of patent system applications at the USPTO
- First-rate information technology infrastructure supports USPTO teleworkers nationwide
- Spotlight on Commerce: Thomas Hong, Primary Patent Examiner
- Spotlight on Commerce: Elizabeth Chu, Social Media Specialist and Acting Website Editor-in-Chief
- PTAB launches the Legal Experience and Advancement Program (LEAP) for the next generation of patent practitioners
- Recognizing World IP Day
- Spotlight on Commerce: Allison Bourke, Supervisory Patent Examiner
- USPTO launches the Expanding Innovation Hub, a new online platform to encourage greater participation in the patent system
- Spotlight on Commerce: Davetta Goins, Supervisory Patent Examiner
- Nominations now open for the National Medal of Technology and Innovation
- USPTO in the game at CES
- Innovations that change the world – apply for Patents for Humanity (P4H) by February 15, 2020
- 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
