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USPTO Upgrades Patent Full Text and Image Database 26 Aug 2013 | 11:28 pm
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has upgraded the USPTO Full Text and Image Database. This upgrade, which the patent community has been requesting for years, uses PDF images inst...
USPTO to Host Next Software Partnership Meeting in Berkeley, California 20 Aug 2013 | 02:25 am
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced that it will host its next Software Partnership Meeting on Thursday, October 17, 2013, at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law in Be...
U.S. Department of Commerce Publishes Green Paper on Updating Copyright Policies for the Internet Age 1 Aug 2013 | 07:03 pm
The U.S. Department of Commerce released a green paper on Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy (Green Paper) to advance discussion on a set of policy issues critical to ...
WIPO Announces New Madrid System Trademark Services 31 Jul 2013 | 09:16 pm
The International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) announced that it will provide new special services to better serve the needs of users of the Madrid Agreement and Proto...
Kappos Stepping Down as Director of the USPTO 26 Nov 2012 | 10:43 pm
Today, David J. Kappos,the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office announced that he would be leaving the agency around the ...
USPTO Publishes Proposed Rules to Implement Micro Entity Status for Paying Discounted Patent Fees 1 Jun 2012 | 04:11 am
In a move designed to help independent inventors, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is proposing to amend the rules of practice in patent cases to implement the micro entity provis...
USPTO to Host Clean Technology Partnership Meeting June 12, 2012 23 May 2012 | 06:34 am
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will host its second Clean Technology Partnership Meeting on Tuesday, June 12, 2012, from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. The meeting will be held in the Sou...
USPTO To Implement Pilot Program For Considering Information Disclosure Statements Filed in Allowed Cases 11 May 2012 | 01:45 am
More good news from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The USPTO will implement a pilot program, Quick Path IDS (QPIDS), for considering Information Disclosure Statements (IDS) fi...
U.S. Commerce Department Releases New Report Showing Intellectual Property-Intensive Industries Contribute $5 Trillion, 40 Million Jobs to U.S. Econom... 13 Apr 2012 | 01:12 am
At a White House announcement event on April 11, 2012, the U.S. Commerce Department released a comprehensive report, entitled “Intellectual Property and the U.S. Economy: Industries in Focus,” which f...
USPTO and Hungarian Intellectual Property Office (HIPO) sign Memorandum of Understanding on Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Program 7 Apr 2012 | 07:05 am
On April 5, 2012, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and Hungarian Intellectual Property Office (HIPO) signed a Memorandum of Understanding making permanent the Patent Prosecution H...
