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Changing the world through innovation: Celebrating and empowering people with disabilities

https://www.uspto.gov/blog/changing-world-through-innovation-celebrating-and-empowering-people-disabilities Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. A young Camp Invention participant shows Dr. Robert Bryant, a prolific inventor and NASA scientist with a visual disability, a miniature finger-board skate park that she designed, engineered, and... Continue reading
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From military service to the USPTO and back

https://www.uspto.gov/blog/military-service-uspto-and-back Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. Major Kayley Squire as an aide-de-camp during her service in the U.S. Air Force. (Photo courtesy of Kayley Squire) Major Kayley Squire, an Air Force strategic policy fellow and... Continue reading
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Update on USPTO response to CrowdStrike IT outage

https://www.uspto.gov/blog/update-uspto-response-crowdstrike-it-outage Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. USPTO technical staff assist employees affected by the IT outage. (Photo by Michael Connor/USPTO) On behalf of the USPTO, I want to express our gratitude for your patience while... Continue reading
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Celebrating 25 years of USPTO’s Public Advisory Committees

https://www.uspto.gov/blog/celebrating-25-years-usptos-public-advisory-committees Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. President Bill Clinton signs into law an appropriations bill that includes the Patent and Trademark Office Efficiency Act, creating the USPTO Public Advisory Committees (PACs), in the Rose Garden... Continue reading
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AI and inventorship guidance: Incentivizing human ingenuity and investment in AI-assisted inventions

https://www.uspto.gov/blog/ai-and-inventorship-guidance-incentivizing Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. Today, based on the exceptional public feedback we’ve received, we announced our Inventorship Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions in the Federal Register. The guidance, which is effective on February 13,... Continue reading
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Help us LEAP forward with PTAB assistance for practitioners and inventors

https://www.uspto.gov/blog/help-us-leap-forward-with Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. LEAP-eligible practitioners speak with PTAB judges (in person and on screen) about logistics for oral hearings during a LEAP to Chambers event at a PTAB hearing room in Alexandria,... Continue reading
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Intellectual property and entrepreneurship resources for the military community

https://www.uspto.gov/blog/intellectual-property-and-entrepreneurship-resources-military-community Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. Did you know U.S. veteran-owned businesses generate $1 trillion annually, employing 3.6 million people? As part of President Biden’s commitment to veterans, military families, and caregivers, the Commerce Department’s... Continue reading
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Coming to a community near you: the future of USPTO outreach

https://www.uspto.gov/blog/coming-community-near-you-future-uspto-outreach Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. USPTO staff share resources with attendees at CES in January 2024. (Photo by Jay Premack/USPTO) Since I began my tenure over two years ago, the USPTO has worked feverishly... Continue reading
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Discussing examiner hiring with Commissioner for Patents Vaishali Udupa

https://www.uspto.gov/blog/discussing-examiner-hiring-commissioner-patents-udupa Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. Kiesha Bryant (left), a USPTO hiring director, and Commissioner for Patents Vaishali Udupa. (Photo by Jay Premack/USPTO) At the USPTO headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, Commissioner for Patents Vaishali Udupa recently... Continue reading
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Working together to tackle patent and trademark pendency

https://www.uspto.gov/blog/working-together-tackle-patent-and-trademark-pendency Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United States Patent & Trademark Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. Director Vidal discusses pendency and other USPTO initiatives at a recent meeting. (Photo by Jay Premack/USPTO) An efficient and reliable intellectual property (IP) system is critical to innovating, brand... Continue reading