Category: Your USPTO
Your USPTO: Trading Card No. 16 Thomas David Petite
He holds more than 50 U.S. patents, with many more pending. But Thomas David Petite says he is merely following the rich inventing heritage of his Native American ancestors.
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Your USPTO: A Palpable Energy
Invention-Con 2022 enlivened the “dog days” of August with a climate of energy, optimism and inclusion.
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Your USPTO: News Flash August 2022
To accelerate innovation in the health and medical fields, the USPTO published a Federal Register Notice announcing a further extension of its Cancer Immunotherapy Pilot Program.
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Your USPTO: Trading Card No. 20 Ray Dolby
Ray Dolby wasn’t afraid of the unknown. He accepted it as a known fact of inventing.
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PTAB’s Resources for Inventors
To help inventors understand what happens when they come before the PTAB and to increase inventors’ chances of success, the board offers a variety of virtual resources for the public. These include webinars, articles, webpages, and free legal tools.
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Your USPTO: Patent Center Fully Replaces Public PAIR System
Beginning August 1, 2022, the Patent Center system—available to the public since 2017—fully replaces the legacy Public Patent Application Information Retrieval (Public PAIR) tool for the electronic filing and management of patent applications.
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Your USPTO: What’s Next in August 2022
TRADEMARK BOOT CAMP: Module 6 of the eight-part series, August 9 from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. ET, will address responding to office actions.
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Your USPTO: TRADING CARD No. 23 – Stephen Gary ‘Woz’ Wozniak
Wozniak was the main tech muscle behind the invention for which he is best known: the first true personal computer.
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Your USPTO: Director’s Direction
Since her first official day as under secretary of commerce for intellectual property and director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on April 14, Kathi Vidal has set a tone of activity and inclusion.
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Your USPTO: Pro Bono is Pro-Inventor
The PTAB and the PTAB Bar Association developed a program to connect financially under-resourced inventors with qualified patent practitioners for free legal or “pro bono” assistance in handling ex parte appeals at the PTAB.
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Your USPTO: News Flash – A New Era of Inclusion
Equity is not just a current trend. It is a commitment to empowerment for all innovators that has far-reaching effects for society as a whole.
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Your USPTO: What’s Next – INVENTION-CON IS COMING!
Invention-Con—the USPTO’s annual conference for independent inventors, entrepreneurs, and small business owners whose success depends on guarding their creative work—returns August 10-12.
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