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Training Teachers to
Educate the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
As students are starting the school year,
teachers are heading back with new lesson plans, some of which include
intellectual property concepts. Last month, more than 50 K-12 educators from
across the nation took part in the 4th Annual National
Summer Teacher Institute (NSTI) on Innovation, STEM, and Intellectual
Property. NSTI is a week-long innovation and entrepreneurial boot camp designed
to help teachers unleash the innovative potential of their students.
Read the blog by
Joe Matal, Performing the Functions and Duties of the Under Secretary of
Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO.
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Avoiding Intellectual
Property Theft Abroad
Overseas markets present some of the best
economic opportunities for U.S. companies, and at the same time can pose some
of the greatest risks – such as counterfeiting. According to a
recently released White House Fact Sheet on protecting American intellectual
property (IP), the annual cost to the U.S. economy from IP theft, including counterfeiting, could be as high as $600 billion.
Read the blog by
Director of the Texas Regional U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Hope Shimabuku.
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Dream to Reality –
Helping Inventors Patent New Technologies
Small businesses and independent inventors both
serve a vital role in our nation’s economy. And helping those with limited
resources is an important goal of the USPTO. The USPTO’s Patent Pro
Bono Program provides free legal assistance to financially
under-resourced inventors and small businesses interested in securing patent
protection for their inventions.
Read the blog by
the Department of Commerce.
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Federal Agencies
Tackling Trademark Scams
Some trademark applicants and registrants have
paid fees to private companies while mistakenly thinking they were paying fees
required by the USPTO. To combat this problem, last week, the USPTO co-hosted
its first ever public
roundtable on fraudulent solicitations with the Trademark Public Advisory
Committee. The objectives of the event were to educate the public about the
problem of misleading or fraudulent advertisements for trademark services, to
learn more about what other government agencies were doing, and to brainstorm
new ideas for tackling this complex issue.
Read the blog by Commissioner for
Trademarks Mary Boney Denison.
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Inspiring Young Minds to be Innovators and Pursue their Dreams
At Camp Invention, almost two million
students have explored their own innate creativity, inventiveness and
entrepreneurial spirit in a week-long day camp program that’s been running
annually since 1990. Currently held at more than 1,400 sites in 50 states for
kindergarten through 6th grade, these students are learning how to think big,
be innovators and pursue their dreams.
Read the blog by Joe Matal,
Performing the Functions and Duties of the Under Secretary of Commerce for
Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO.
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Invention-Con 2017
Invention-Con is a free, two-day independent inventors’
conference to inform and equip inventors and small businesses with intellectual
property know-how. Held at the USPTO on August 11 and 12, attendees participated in plenary talks, joined in topic specific,
small-group breakout sessions, and heard from USPTO officials and experts who
presented information on patents, trademarks, and other intellectual property
matters and topics of interest to inventors and small businesses.
To learn more about Invention-Con 2017, view the
event page or agenda.
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Patent Quality Chat:
“Using Petitions Effectively in Patent Prosecution”
Deputy Commissioner for Patent
Quality Valencia Martin Wallace held the eighth Patent Quality Chat in the 2017 webinar series on
August 8 on “Using
Petitions Effectively in Patent Prosecution.”
Speakers Charles
Kim,
Director, Office of Petitions, and Namrata
Boveja, Acting Deputy Director, Office of Petitions, highlighted how petitions are
used most effectively to advance patent prosecution, shared best practices to
avoid the need to file unnecessary petitions, and discussed electronic petition
filing options.
Patent Quality Chat is a monthly, lunchtime
webinar series designed to provide information on patent quality topics and
gather your input. To learn more about the August Patent Quality Chat, watch the
archived video or view the presentation
slides.
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Biotechnology/Chemical/Pharmaceutical
Customer Partnership
The
USPTO’s second Bicoastal Biotechnology, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Customer
Partnership (BCBCP) Meeting was held on August 2. This BCBCP expands the
USPTO’s long-standing partnership in this industry sector to customers across
the country. The BCBCP Meeting was simultaneously available at locations on
both the East (Alexandria, Va.) and West (Silicon Valley, Calif.) coasts. During the
BCBCP, participants were able to interact with USPTO personnel in-person or via
webcast.
To learn more, view the
event page.
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Patent Public Advisory Committee Quarterly
Meeting
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