Category: Your USPTO
Your USPTO: Two Tribunals Rule on Patent Validity
In the United States, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and the U.S. district courts adjudicate patent validity. But only the courts address infringement and penalties.
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Your USPTO: What’s Next – January 2021
TRADEMARK BASICS BOOT CAMP: Modules in this free, eight-part virtual series return for 2022 with Module 1 on January 11, and subsequent modules every Tuesday in January and February from 2 to 3:30 p.m ET.
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Your USPTO: No. 27 Luis von Ahn
As the world celebrates Computer Science Education Week December 6-12, it can also celebrate von Ahn’s prominent role in improving the security of internet sites, digitizing books through crowdsourcing, and more.
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Your USPTO: RESOURCE SPOTLIGHT – Save Me the Money
Given inventors’ sometimes long road from concept to successful product or idea, worrying about money doesn’t have to be an overwhelming part of the journey. The USPTO offers cost-saving options and resources to help when filing a patent application.
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Your USPTO: NEWS FLASH – New Energy for Inclusion
“Inclusive” is the key word in the newly branded Council for Inclusive Innovation (CI2). The council—consisting of a who’s who from sectors including the federal government, academia, industry, intellectual property associations and nonprofits—will be chaired by United States Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo.
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Your USPTO: Inside PTAB Hearings
Though it might not be the first place you would think of, the USPTO also holds hearings. It houses the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), which adjudicates certain patent-related legal proceedings.
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Your USPTO: MAGIC MOMENT – Artful Artifacts
The slow, competitive fizz began building when Coca-Cola and then Pepsi were introduced in the last 15 years of the 1800s.
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Your USPTO: PTAB Trials
Defending your patent rights and undermining a patent challenger’s arguments that your claims are invalid are goals for Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) trials, from a patentee’s perspective.
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Your USPTO: No. 25 Hedy Lamarr
Born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, Austria, in 1914, Hedy Lamarr left school when she was 15 to become an actress. But she had a passion for inventing.
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Your USPTO: MAGIC MOMENT – Its Time Had Come
George (Goldie) Kliewer applied for and eventually received a historic patent in the 1960s because his inventing group believed turkeys weren’t the only ones in potential danger at Thanksgiving.
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Your USPTO: NEWS FLASH – Innovation Champions
Winners have been announced in the 2021 Collegiate Inventors Competition®, an annual event for students and their advisers.
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Your USPTO: What’s Next – November 2021
The USPTO hosts this virtual session on the first Thursday of each month, covering patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.
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