Category: Your USPTO

To achieve fairness in any legal dispute, it is paramount for two parties to develop a fair record and be able to respond to arguments raised by the other side. In an America Invents Act (AIA) trial proceeding before the USPTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), this is the goal of a process called discovery.

The USPTO’s Trademark Basics Boot Camp provides a comprehensive overview of trademarks and the federal trademark registration process.

Join the online 2022 Veterans Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program, November 30, 1-4 p.m. ET and hear from innovative veterans about their journeys toward successful entrepreneurship.

If you are dissatisfied with a USPTO examiner’s rejection of your patent application, you have recourse. You can have the decision reviewed by administrative patent judges (APJs) of the USPTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in a process called an ex parte appeal.

With the help of Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) judges, the Stadium Tour is designed to increase the public’s access to board proceedings that would otherwise only be available in Alexandria, Virginia.

USPTO Director Kathi Vidal has been appointed by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo as a federal co-chair of the National Advisory Council on Innovation & Entrepreneurship.