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Your USPTO: A Triumph of Insight

March Women’s Entrepreneurship Symposium series inspired and educated a growing inventor demographic. What you do is pivot. That was the theme of the March 3 Women’s Entrepreneurship Symposium (WES) virtual panel discussion, “Always Dancing: Entrepreneurship and the Art of the Pivot.”

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Your USPTO: Trading Card No. 29 – Temple Grandin

Dr. Grandin, a professor of animal sciences at Colorado State University who holds U.S. Patent No. 5,906,540 for her animal stunning system, is also a best-selling author whose contributions to autism awareness and the livestock industry were captured in an HBO Emmy Award-winning movie about her life.

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Your USPTO: His Turn as Mentor

Some of the best teachers benefit from the teachers who shaped them. Dr. Jorge L. Valdes, an Education Program advisor and STEM educator at the USPTO, smiles when he thinks back at lunchtime during his long career at AT&T Bell Labs.

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Your USPTO: A Vision for Inclusion

In 1942, the iconic actress received a patent from the then-National Inventors Council for co-inventing a radio signaling device that changed radio frequencies to keep enemies from decoding messages. She figured the device could help in the World War II effort.

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Your USPTO: U.S. Patent Act signed

His speech on Jan. 8, 1790—the forerunner to what we now call the State of the Union Address—touched on issues including defense, foreign policy, the economy, education, naturalization, science, and literature. Elected America’s first president 11 months later, he oversaw the ratification of the Constitution and led the formation of the government.

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Your USPTO: ‘Mystery’ Solved

Getting a patent may seem difficult. It’s important to understand the steps along the way, so the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s new Expanding Innovation Hub has the information you need to demystify the patent system.

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