Published on: 10/05/2021 8:23 AM
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A look back at the highlights of September 2021 |
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Johnny Pacheco founded Fania Records in 1964 and created the Latin music and dance sensation that came to be known, simply, as “salsa.” |
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Inventing salsa
Johnny Pacheco popularized a New York version of Cuban dance music by founding a label, Fania Records, and a troupe of performers, the Fania All Stars, in the 1960s. He called it all “salsa”—the music, the dancing, the culture as a whole—and the term has stuck. Through salsa, Pacheco and Fania achieved lasting recognition for performers from the United States’ growing Latino communities and created a worldwide market for Latin dance music.
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In recent years, we have seen a significant increase in applications by inventors claiming micro entity status, especially in the field of design patents. |
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Ensuring the validity of micro entity certifications – which provide reduced fees to eligible inventors and small businesses
A core focus of our work at the USPTO is to foster innovation, competition, and economic growth, by providing opportunities for all current and aspiring inventors and entrepreneurs to participate in the intellectual property (IP) system. The cost of filing an application for a patent or trademark should not hinder individual inventors and small businesses from obtaining these key IP protections. That is why we offer a 50% and 75% reduction on most patent application fees to independent inventors and small businesses that qualify as small and micro entities.
By Andrew Faile, Acting Commissioner for Patents | Continue reading
Apply for a judicial law clerkship at the USPTO by September 10
Are you interested in launching your career as an intellectual property (IP) practitioner by clerking for an administrative patent judge on the USPTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)? The PTAB is currently hiring for one-year clerkships to start in the fall of 2022. Check out our posting on the USAJobs website, which closes September 10, and read on to learn more about the role.
By Scott Boalick, Chief Judge of the PTAB | Continue reading
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Deadline for submission of comments on patent eligibility jurisprudence extended to October 15
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has extended the deadline for submitting comments on the state of patent eligibility jurisprudence, and its effect on investment and innovation in the United States, to October 15, 2021.
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Scott Beliveau, branch chief of advanced analytics at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), shares his insights into how the USPTO is leveraging data, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI) to help advance [the USPTO's] efforts. In this interview, he identifies how a small scrappy team at USPTO created an award winning AI/ML program that is saving the USPTO tens of millions of dollars and is serving over 200 million public requests annually.
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Meet the first two Black women to be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
The National Inventors Hall of Fame has been around for nearly five decades but hasn't included any Black women in its ranks—until now. Engineer Marian Croak and the late ophthalmologist Patricia Bath will make history as part of the next cohort of inductees, the nonprofit announced this past week. They are the first Black female inventors to receive this honor, which has been bestowed on some 600 other innovators both living and dead.
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Find all upcoming and past events at https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/events.
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The most sweeping reform to the U.S. patent system since the Patent Act of 1952, the America Invents Act of 2011 set out to create a modern, objective, and efficient system to foster American innovation. |
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We are thrilled to support the National Inventors Hall of Fame and its incredible slate of 2022 inductees! Congratulations to these trailblazing innovators.
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Last week we welcomed staff members from Capitol Hill to USPTO headquarters! Our guests from the legislative branch toured the National Inventors Hall of Fame museum, received an overview of USPTO operations, and learned about the agency's vital role in the U.S. economy.
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