been in development since 2012, links patent inventors, their location and their organisation, and overall patenting activity. It uses data from public USPTO data files running from 1976 to 2014.
The US Senate has confirmed that Michelle Lee will lead the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), ending a two-year period without a permanent director. michelle-lee-uspto.jpgLee (pictured left
On May 6, 2016, Michelle K. Lee, the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), announced a second update (May 2016
been evolving requiring adjustments by innovators, businesses, lower courts and administrative agencies such as the USPTO,” said Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of
Figures show USPTO received 440,000 new trademark applications in 2017 Number is a 13% year-on-year rise, and highlights quality challenge USPTO trademark commissioner pledges more examiner hires in
Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Kathi Vidal, along with newly sworn-in Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce
Program now accepting applications for volunteer patent practitioners with ex parte appeal experience WASHINGTON – The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced a
JPO will act as an available ISA and IPEA for certain international applications filed with USPTO that are directed to the field of green technology. The USPTO and the Japan Patent Office have
findings, they faced the possibility that their patent in country A would be rescinded. As part of an effort to curtail such confusion, KIPO and the USPTO have planned to launch their Collaborative Search
disclosed by a reference? And, 2) what are the boundaries of the broadest reasonable claim interpretation (BRI) standard applied by the USPTO. According to the Federal Circuit, the USPTO must show facts to