USPTO announces regional winners of the 2023 National Patent Application Drafting Competition

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USPTO announces regional winners of the 2023 National Patent Application Drafting Competition

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), with the support of several collegiate law school programs and the USPTO's regional offices, hosted five virtual regional rounds of the National Patent Application Drafting Competition (NPADC) on March 4, 2023. Five regional finalists from 55 teams will be competing at the national competition at the USPTO headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, on April 14, 2023.

Congratulations and good luck to all of the 2023 NPADC regional finalists! Finalists from each regional round (region in parenthesis) include:

• George Washington University Law School (Eastern Region)
• University of Detroit Mercy School of Law (Midwest Region)
• University of Missouri-Kansas City (Rocky Mountain Region)
• University of Southern California Gould School of Law (Silicon Valley Region)
• University of Wisconsin Law School (Texas Region)

The competition provides law students and students studying patent law the opportunity to develop patent prosecution skills by applying legal principles to a hypothetical invention scenario. 

To learn more about the competition, please visit the NPADC page on the USPTO website.

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