Category: Your USPTO
Your USPTO: Dream to Help Others Realized
LegalCORPS is one of 21 regional programs that make up the USPTO’s Patent Pro Bono Program, a nationwide network of independently operated regional programs that match volunteer patent professionals with financially under-resourced inventors and small businesses throughout the United States to secure patent protection.
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Your USPTO: Trading Card No. 3 – Forrest Bird
We have seen statistics that convey the horrible death toll of COVID-19. If only we knew the...
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Your USPTO: Monthly Primers on IP
Learn IP basics on patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets the first Thursday of each month from USPTO experts—and why it is important to protect your innovation as it moves from idea to product.
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Your USPTO: A Library of Help
The Patent and Trademark Resource Center Program (PTRCP), formerly the Patent and Trademark Depository Library Program, features a slew of electronic resources and staff trained to use search tools for accessing patent and trademark information.
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Your USPTO: Magic Moment – Carborundum and the Electrical Furnace
May 19 marks the 175th anniversary of Edward Goodrich Acheson receiving U.S. Patent No. 560,291 for an electrical furnace, one of history’s most impactful inventions.
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Your USPTO: Trading Card No. 15 – Alfred Yi Cho
Dr. Alfred Yi Cho’s invention was indeed where no man has gone before, but with vast impacts on Earth. Whenever you make a cellphone call, read words on a computer, watch a DVD, or use a microwave oven, you are benefiting from molecular beam epitaxy (MBE).
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Your USPTO: Get Kids Involved!
Camp Invention, a program by the National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) in partnership with the USPTO, can provide kindergarten through sixth-grade students these rewards in addition to collaboration, entrepreneurship, confidence, and persistence.
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Your USPTO: Director’s Corner – Double Duty
Have you ever wondered what happens once a patent application has been submitted? Drew Hirshfeld may be more uniquely qualified to answer that question than anyone. The USPTO commissioner for patents is also performing the functions and duties of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO on an interim basis.
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Your USPTO: What’s Next – Free Virtual Training
The USPTO’s Trademark Basics Boot Camp, running eight consecutive Tuesdays from April 6 through May 25, is a free, must-attend virtual event for small business owners and entrepreneurs interested in learning about trademarks and how to apply for a federal registration.
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Your USPTO: News Flash – A Triumph of Insight
The March Women’s Entrepreneurship Symposium series inspired and educated a growing inventor demographic.
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Your USPTO: No. 10 – Luther Burbank
Luther Burbank would have been consumed with gleeful anticipation for Earth Day on April 22, just as he was at the beginning of every planting season.
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Your USPTO: Director’s Corner – Commander in Tech
Jamie Holcombe, chief information officer at the USPTO, is the principal advisor to the agency on the design, development, and management of its information systems and technology.
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