Your USPTO: Director’s Blog – Navigating an AI World
USPTO, U.S. Administration work to leverage artificial intelligence’s promise—and minimize its potential problems.
Your USPTO: Trading Card No. 27 – Rory Cooper
Rory Cooper has devoted his life to accomplishing big things for a small segment of the American population.
Your USPTO: Journeys of Innovation – True Grit, in White
Single mother and secretary Bette Nesmith Graham conquered fear to create a revolutionary office invention. Her lifelong passion for the arts—combined with a healthy dose of perseverance—saved her career.
Your USPTO: Regional Homes Midwest Office – The Real McCoy
The stately portrait of Elijah J. McCoy—a Canadian-American engineer of African-American descent who invented lubrication systems for steam engines—stands proudly at the first regional office in the history of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Your USPTO: Director’s Blog – Tackling Global Climate Change
Meeting with leaders of world’s 5 largest IP offices focused on sustainable innovation, net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. Our work ties directly into the U.S. administration’s priority to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.
Your USPTO: News Flash – Renaming Honors Croak
In support of its initiatives to expand inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship to grow jobs and improve lives, the USPTO announced the renaming of its Edison Visiting Scholars Program after Dr. Marian Rogers Croak.
The Path to Easy Sales
Before investing too much money in an invention, it pays to consider how easy it will be to sell. Let’s look at this from two major themes—priorities for customers, and your ability to get and retain them through entry points.
Your USPTO: A Faster Patent Application
Enter the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Its Council for Inclusive Innovation (CI2) First-Time Filer Expedited Examination Pilot Program improves access to the patent application process for participants filing nonprovisional patent applications for the first time.
YOUR USPTO: Director’s Blog – Supporting Our Military
This event led by Commerce Department and USPTO provides information to help veterans start businesses. More than 100 military personnel, military spouses, and veterans attended in-person—with hundreds more online—as they heard from experts in business development and intellectual property.
Your USPTO: Journeys of Innovation – She Lives ‘Inventivity’
Daughter of Gatorade inventor continues in father’s footsteps with Cade Museum for Creativity & Invention. This began with a lifelong journey of what Phoebe calls “inventivity”—a combination of invention and creativity.
Your USPTO: ‘They Stole My Invention!’
When a collaboration goes wrong: A look at rare derivation proceedings before the PTAB. If you as an inventor find yourself in this situation, what can you do?
Your USPTO: Journeys of Innovation – A Renewable Resolve
On the morning of September 20, 2017, as the roar of Hurricane Maria gave way to an ominous silence under an overcast sky, Vanessa Carballido Clerch and her parents made their way down a residential street in Guaynabo, a suburb of San Juan, Puerto Rico, back to the home they had evacuated in the middle of the night.