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A look back at the highlights of October 2022 |
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Amy and Ben Wright discovered what it means to be radically inclusive by building an innovative business with a recognizable brand. Along the way, Bitty and Beau’s has become much more than just a coffee shop. |
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Innovating for inclusivity
A picturesque coffee shop sits just steps from the water in the heart of Annapolis, Maryland. As you walk in, the scent of freshly brewed coffee wafts through the air. The immaculate diner-style counter is lined with bar stools, and it's open and free of equipment, giving you a clear view to the back where the baristas craft the drinks. Other shops may camouflage the hubbub with rows of machines and merchandise, dividing employees from customers, but this shop has no such barriers. The décor is sleek and minimal with a muted color palette, so there's nothing flashy to draw your eye. There's just one focal point—the employees.
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Technical standards play a critical role in our daily lives. From the phones in our pockets to the computer networks that support our communications with colleagues and family, standardized technology has brought many benefits to society. |
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Standard essential patent policy and practices: We want to hear from you!
Technical standards are most effective when innovators commit their patented technologies to the standard, agreeing to license those patents on “fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory” (FRAND) terms. Those patents — standard essential patents (SEPs) — are necessary to practice a given technical standard. By agreeing to license patents on FRAND terms, the patentee is compensated by licensees for their contributions while facilitating the implementation of the standard more broadly in society and across the globe.
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Hispanic inventors and entrepreneurs bring new technologies to market
This month, the U.S. Department of Commerce is celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month and Hispanic communities. We pay tribute to the numerous Hispanic entrepreneurs and innovators that help fulfill the promise of America for all. Here are three of their stories.
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The United States Patent and Trademark Office released a new report, titled “Where are U.S. women patentees? Assessing three decades of growth.” The report examines women’s patenting by U.S. counties from 1990 through 2019. |
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Where are U.S. women patentees?
Assessing three decades of growth
This report maps women’s participation as inventor-patentees across U.S. counties from
1990 through 2019. It identifies counties with the most women patentees by technology field and assesses three decades of growth. Recognizing that increasing the number of women who patent is an important policy objective, the analysis explores characteristics of county economic environments that are correlated with having and increasing the number of women inventor-patentees.
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USPTO seeks public feedback on initiatives to expand opportunities to practice before the agency
WASHINGTON—The United States Patent and Trademark Office is requesting public input on two new Federal Register Notices (FRNs) aimed at expanding opportunities to practice before the agency, namely Expanding opportunities to appear before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and Expanding admission criteria for registration to practice in patent cases before the USPTO.
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Find all upcoming and past events at https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/events.
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This morning, the USPTO announced a new report on the geography of women patent holders over the last three decades at the Society of Women Engineers - SWE’s annual conference in Houston, Texas. Over the thirty-year span, Harris County, Texas (which includes Houston), experienced rapid growth in the number of women inventors patenting in the field of fixed construction, increasing 2,045%. |
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 Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Collegiate Inventors Competition! These students are working to support the treatment for the buildup of fluid within the brain’s ventricles, invent a safer and smarter approach to pesticide use, increase comfort and mobility for successful clubfoot care, and use emerging technologies to increase positive outcomes in surgeries to treat cancer.
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 Did you know a typical U.S. consumer sees up to 10,000 trademarks every day? Most are word or design marks, but others fall into nontraditional categories such as sound, color, or even scent. A new exhibit at USPTO headquarters explores some of these nontraditional marks from each of the USPTO regions across the country, from the notes and octave of “CH CH CH Chia” to the color of a John Deere tractor.
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 On October 13, the USPTO participated in CvilleBioHub's Biodiscovery Summit in Charlottesville, Virginia. The event brought together entrepreneurs and founders in biotechnology to discuss challenges and strategies, including intellectual property.
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