Published on: 09/07/2023 11:37 AM
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A look back at the highlights of August 2023 |
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Nearly 60 years after her father’s invention made a splash on the football field, Phoebe Cade Miles and her Cade Museum staff in Gainesville, Florida, continue Dr. James Cade’s legacy by encouraging 'inventivity' for all Americans through creativity, courage, resiliency, and confident humility. |
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Gatorade legacy whets daughter’s thirst for 'inventivity'
For Phoebe Cade Miles, growing up as the daughter of Dr. James Robert Cade in the 1960s and 1970s was a lot like being in the movie “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.” She, her five older siblings, and neighborhood kids would wait excitedly for Phoebe’s father to bring home something fascinating, such as a new telescope or even a three-legged dog. Even berry-picking outings at their Gainesville, Florida, home were adventures. After picking wild berries and plums, father and daughter rode their bikes home and brought their fruity bounty into the Cade kitchen to make jam. Sometimes the homemade jam turned out well. One time, Phoebe said, the jam didn’t quite gel. She and her dad asked each other why didn’t it gel? Was it too acidic? What do we do with it now?
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The USPTO hosted the leaders of the five largest intellectual property offices of the world, as well as the World Intellectual Property Organization, at their annual meeting, this year focused on sustainability. (Photo by Michael Cleveland/USPTO) |
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Working globally to address climate change through sustainable innovation
Recently, I had the privilege of hosting the leaders of the largest intellectual property (IP) offices in the world – the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japan Patent Office (JPO), the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), and the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA), along with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), for the annual meeting of the IP5, which took place in Hawai’i. I then led the USPTO delegation to the 64th Assemblies of the Member States of WIPO, an annual meeting with over 190 international IP offices from around the world in Geneva, Switzerland.
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How the domicile address requirement advances our trademark anti-fraud efforts
We recently issued an examination guide to clarify the steps examining attorneys must take to evaluate the validity of a trademark applicant’s “domicile” as included in their application. This requirement is also a key part of our comprehensive effort to fight trademark filing fraud. In this blog, we offer a little more about what it is, why it’s so important, and what you can do to help.
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“Dr. Croak’s contributions to global society are unparalleled, with her VoIP technology serving as the basis for today’s Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and other telecommunications programs that enable virtual connectivity,” said Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO. |
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USPTO renames visiting scholars program after pioneering inventor of technology for virtual phone calls, text-to-donate system Dr. Marian Rogers Croak
In support of its ongoing initiatives to expand inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship to grow jobs and improve lives, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced the renaming of its Edison Visiting Scholars Program after Dr. Marian Rogers Croak, a pioneer in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technologies, inventor of the text-to-donate system, and a 2022 inductee into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
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Find all upcoming and past events at https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/events.
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USPTO Director Kathi Vidal visited The World of Barbie recently to discuss IP protection for businesses. @barbie, who launched a career as a teenage fashion model and parlayed it into more than 200 other jobs, has been protected by 33 patents over her lifetime. @mattel’s decision to protect Barbie’s world underscores how a trademarked brand and protected product are foundational to business success, Vidal said. |
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 Did someone say dog days of summer? 🐕 Not that we needed an excuse to dig through the archives for some puppy patents. DOGgone it, there’s a lot of them!
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 Nearly 60 years after Dr. James Cade’s invention @Gatorade made a splash on the football field, his daughter Phoebe and the @CadeMuseum continue his legacy by encouraging 'inventivity' for all Americans.
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 The USPTO joins the nation in commemorating Women’s Equality Day! The 19th Amendment, which was certified on August 26, 1920, prohibited states and the federal government from denying or abridging the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex.
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 “Calc-you-later!” *awkward laughter* #OTD in 1888, William Seward Burroughs received a patent for his practical calculating machine, making this and an infinite (or finite?) number of accounting jokes possible. His work as a bank clerk inspired him to create a device that would make the jobs of accountants and bookkeepers less monotonous and cut down on the amount of time they spent correcting errors.
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