Category: Your USPTO
Your USPTO: What’s Next – May 2023
Find out more about upcoming events hosted by the USPTO in May 2023.
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Your USPTO: News Flash – Awards Program to Honor Stewards of Environment
The USPTO’s new Trademarks for Humanity awards program is designed to recognize brand owners who improve the environment through their products and services.
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Your USPTO: Inventors Must Get Specific
A detailed specification, containing a description and other information illustrating the invention, is essential in the quest for a patent.
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Your USPTO: What’s Next April 2023
Learn about the latest events put on by the USPTO.
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Your USPTO: News Flash – Patent Grants Going Electronic
Beginning April 18, 2023, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is shifting toward issuing paper waste-reducing electronic patent grants (eGrants) to patent recipients.
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Your USPTO: Journeys of Innovation – A Girl’s Window into History
Pleasant Rowland’s Pleasant Company was a major risk: pricey toys and books for pre-teen girls that taught them about history
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Your USPTO: Baker’s List and Beyond
In the 1880s, second assistant patent examiner Henry E. Baker took on a project that became his legacy: compiling the first list of African American patent holders.
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Your USPTO: Trading Card No. 26 Charles ‘Pete’ Conrad
Conrad’s Nov. 19, 1969, feat during the second Apollo moon mission, Apollo 12, marked the apex of an unlikely NASA career. He also was co-inventor of a significant satellite communications technology.
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Your USPTO: Director’s Corner – New Law Furthers Inclusive Innovation
With the support of Congress and President Biden—and the Sen. Patrick Leahy-led Unleashing American Innovators Act of 2022, signed into law on December 29—now is the moment to make lasting, sustainable change.
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Your USPTO: News Flash – Beware of Impersonator Calls
Scammers have recently started calling trademark customers, falsely claiming to be an employee with the USPTO.
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Your USPTO: What’s Next in March 2023?
“Empowering Women’s Entrepreneurship (WE),” a community-focused, collaborative, and creative initiative to encourage and empower more women founders across America, will be March 15 and 29.
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Your USPTO: Rejected Again. Now What?
In the November 2022 Inventors Digest, the USPTO told readers about inventors’ options if a patent examiner rejects a patent application. If a patent applicant receives a second or final rejection of his or her application, the applicant again has options.
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