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- Ready, set, compete! How we’re helping veterans and military family members innovate and start new businesses
- Patent Pro Bono Program expands and reaches underserved populations with free legal services
- Announcing the winners of the 2023 National Patent Application Drafting Competition
- Don’t miss it! Join us for World Intellectual Property Day
- With artificial intelligence speeding the innovation process, what does that mean for invention and a properly balanced patent system?
- One year of bringing innovation to impact
- New Trademarks for Humanity awards competition: Branding a better future
- Spotlight on Debbie Stephens: Driving change and modernization in information technology systems
- Apply by March 31 to the USPTO’s National Summer Teacher Institute!
- Increasing transparency, boosting competition, and supporting innovation can deliver better choices for farmers in the seed marketplace
- Free resources inventors and entrepreneurs need to know about
- Beyond Baker’s list: Black innovation then and now
- EquIP HQ: Empowering students and teachers with invention and intellectual property skills
- Black History Month: Advocating for and supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion at the USPTO
- Connecting entrepreneurs with government resources at CES
- Help our nation honor the innovators who have inspired you
- USPTO’s Trademark Public Advisory Committee: Where we’ve been and where we’re headed
- The Unleashing American Innovators Act: Promoting inclusive innovation under the new law
- Top three helpful tips for filing patent applications as you move to DOCX format
- Recognizing life-saving COVID-19 innovations
- Increasing representation of Native Americans in STEM and innovation
- See yourself at the USPTO: Find a student program for you
- Jumpstart your career with LEAP!
- Hispanic inventors and entrepreneurs bring new technologies to market
- Register for the 2022 Hispanic Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program
- Standard essential patent policy and practices: We want to hear from you!
- Go for Real: An innovative USPTO partnership helping young consumers avoid dangerous fakes
- Advancing U.S. interests abroad
- Call for collaboration with stakeholders
- Patent Public Search tool – a streamlined way to search all U.S. published patent applications
- Duty of disclosure and duty of reasonable inquiry promote robust and reliable patents, drive competition and economic growth, and bring life-saving drugs to the American people
- Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and the USPTO’s Council for Inclusive Innovation expand innovation to promote jobs and U.S. prosperity
- Providing clear guidance on patent subject matter eligibility
- The search for lost X-patents
- Modernizing the management of patent applications with Patent Center
- The Biden Administration is acting to promote competition and lower drug prices for all Americans
- Safeguarding the trademark community against fraud with identity verification
- Celebrating LGBTQ+ Inventors and Entrepreneurs
- Visit the reopened National Inventors Hall of Fame Museum
- PTAB Pro Bono Program: Helping inventors obtain legal counsel for PTAB proceedings
- Incentivizing and protecting innovation in artificial intelligence and emerging technologies
- Doing our part to mitigate climate change: fast-tracking green innovations
- Celebrating Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander inventors and entrepreneurs
- Just getting started
- 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
