Patents Customer Partnership Meetings (CPM) provide a valuable opportunity for our external stakeholders to meet directly with United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) representatives in a collaborative forum. At these meetings, we share plans and operational efforts to better educate and inform our stakeholders. These meetings also enable the patent community to share ideas, experiences, and insights as well as discuss examination policies and procedures, mutual concerns, and solutions to common problems.
Past events
Opportunity to share ideas, experiences, and insights during an informal discussion of current initiatives, quality, interview practice, petitions, and resources available to practitioners specific to Business Methods.
Attend the Biotechnology, Chemical, and Pharmaceutical Customer Partnership meeting
The meeting is an opportunity to bring stakeholders together to share ideas, experiences, and insights and to provide a forum for an informal discussion of many topics specific to the Business Methods area.
The Cybersecurity Partnership meeting is a collaborative forum for anyone seeking patent protection in the cyber and network security sectors to share ideas, experiences, and insights with USPTO staff.
The BCP meeting is for all stakeholders to share insights and experiences to improve patent prosecution in these areas.
Learn about current programs underway in Technology Center (TC) 2800 and hear customer perspectives about those programs at the Customer Partnership meeting (CPM)
The is an opportunity to bring stakeholders together to share ideas, experiences, and insights and to provide a forum for an informal discussion of many topics specific to the Business Methods area.
POSTPONED - The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) periodically hosts Partnership Meetings to bring industry stakeholders and patent examiners and directors from Technology Centers 3600 and 3700
The BCP meeting is for all stakeholders to share insights and experiences to improve patent prosecution in these areas.
Technology Center 2800 Circuits and Optics Customer Partnership Meeting
Attend the seventh annual USPTO Additive Manufacturing Partnership Meeting
Attend the Biotechnology, Chemical and Pharmaceutical (BCP) Partnership Meeting
Learn about mechanical disciplines at the TC 3600 and TC 3700 Customer Partnership Meeting
2019 Business Methods Partnership Meeting
Attend the TC 2800 Customer Partnership Meeting
Attend the Technology Center 2600 Customer Partnership Meeting
Partnering in Patents 2018 - 25th Anniversary
Biotechnology/Chemical/Pharmaceutical Customer Partnership
TC2800 Semiconductor Customer Partnership
USPTO Additive Manufacturing Partnership Meeting
TC 2800 Circuits Customer Partnership Meeting
USPTO announces the 2018 Customer Partnership Meeting to be hosted by the directors and managers of Technology Centers 3600 and 3700 in conjunction with AIPLA. Members of the public are invited to attend.
Design Day 2018 - Alexandria, VA
The BCP Meeting is for all stakeholders to share insights and experiences to improve patent prosecution in these areas.
TC 1700 Partnership Meeting
Join us for the TC 2600 Customer Partnership Meeting at the USPTO Headquarters in Alexandria, VA - Jan. 17
The BCP meeting is for all stakeholders to share insights and experiences to improve patent prosecution in these areas.
TC2800 Semiconductor Customer Partnership
Technology Center 2600 Customer Partnership Meeting
The USPTO is hostingt an Additive Manufacturing Partnership Meeting on June 1st from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm at the Alexandria campus.
Biotechnology/Chemical/Pharmaceutical Customer Partnership- March 16, 2017
Biotechnology/Chemical/Pharmaceutical Customer Partnership - October 19, 2016
The USPTO periodically hosts Partnership Meetings to share ideas, experiences, and insights on best practices in advancing prosecution and discuss how the agency can improve its relationship with the technology community.
Biotechnology/Chemical/Pharmaceutical Customer Partnership- June 30, 2016
USPTO Additive Manufacturing Partnership Meeting
Biotechnology/Chemical/Pharmaceutical Customer Partnership- April 26, 2016