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• 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
• When Patents and Trademarks Go Bump in the Night
• National Trademark Expo October 21-22
• Protecting the Rights of American Innovators in Cuba
• Improving the Trademark Register
• USPTO Launches New Jobs Pages and Outreach to Hispanic Millennials
• USPTO Proposes Patent and PTAB Fee Adjustments
• Commemorating Five Years of the America Invents Act
• Transparency in Patent Examination Prosecution: Master Review Form
• Five Years of Patent Pro Bono Success
• Importing Prior Art Automatically to Streamline Patent Examination Process
• USPTO Launches Cancer Moonshot Challenge
• Keeping International Competition Front of Mind
• Intellectual Property and the Challenge of 3D Printing
• New Post-Prosecution Pilot Under Way
• PTAB Replaces Patent Review Processing System
• Teaming Up to Cure Cancer
• Trademarks Moving Forward
• Topics Announced for Case Studies Pilot
• USPTO Regional Offices Forge Ahead in 2016
• Protecting U.S. Trade Secrets
• Patent Trial and Appeal Board Leadership and Accomplishments
• Patent Quality Community Symposium Gathers Public Feedback on USPTO Programs
• Further Insight Provided on PTAB Amendment Motions with New Study
• Update to Examiner Guidance on Patent Subject Matter Eligibility
• USPTO Celebrates World IP Day and Digital Creativity
• TTAB Gathers Feedback on Docketing System and Announces Updates to Filing System
• USPTO Launches Two New Online Fee Payment Tools
• PTAB Issues Final Rules for Improved Proceedings
• Improvements in Measuring Patent Quality Metrics
• From NASA to South by Southwest
• USPTO’s National Summer Teacher Institute – Bringing Innovation to the Classroom
• USPTO Maintains Productivity Despite Inclement Weather
• USPTO Submits its Fiscal Year 2017 Congressional Budget Justification
• Submit Topic Ideas for New Quality Case Studies Pilot Program