- 18 Apr. 2025
Celebrating the National Patent Application Drafting Competition’s winners
<article class="media media--type-image media--view-mode-rss"> <div class="field field--name-field-media-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/coke-vw-winning-teams.jpg" alt="Acting Director Coke Stewart and Acting Commissioner for Patents Valencia Martin Wallace stand with regional-finalist team members in the National Patent Application Drafting Competition." /> </div> </article> <p>Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart (fourth from right, first row) and Acting Commissioner for... - 17 Jan. 2025
Patent pendency goals: A road map for the future
<article class="media media--type-image media--view-mode-rss"> <div class="field field--name-field-media-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/patent-pendency-blog-feature-homepage.jpg" alt="promotional graphic that presents a bar chart. o A bar chart shows USPTO unexamined inventory of patent applications, starting in fiscal year (FY) 2022 and ending in FY 2030." /> </div> </article> <p>At America’s Innovation Agency, we recognize the tremendous responsibility and honor we have to... - 18 Dez. 2024
Trademark Center—a new way to apply to register your trademark
<article class="media media--type-image media--view-mode-rss"> <div class="field field--name-field-media-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/trademark-center-screenshot.jpg" alt="The webpage of the USPTO's new Trademark Center platform" /> </div> </article> <p>A photo illustration of the starting page of the USPTO's new Trademark Center, as depicted on a... - 09 Dez. 2024
Quality U.S. patents drive our economy and solve world problems
<article class="media media--type-image media--view-mode-rss"> <div class="field field--name-field-media-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/kv.db_.uspto_.town_.hall_.jpg" alt="USPTO Director Kathi Vidal (on the left) and Deputy Director Derrick Brent (on the right) are seated next to each other on July 18 at an agencywide town hall. They both face the audience, and Vidal is speaking and gesturing. The event was held in the Clara Barton Auditorium on the headquarters campus in Alexandria, Virginia. " /> </div> </article> <p>USPTO Director Kathi Vidal and Deputy Director Derrick Brent speak on July 18, 2024, at an... - 22 Nov. 2024
Advancing the AIA’s goal to strengthen the U.S. IP system
<article class="media media--type-image media--view-mode-rss"> <div class="field field--name-field-media-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/obama-signs-aia.jpg" alt="A man in a suit and tie sits at a desk on a stage surrounded by a group of adults and two girls as their photo is taken." /> </div> </article> <p>Surrounded by lawmakers, officials, and students, President Barack Obama signs into law the AIA at... - 20 Nov. 2024
Giving thanks to our inventors
<article class="media media--type-image media--view-mode-rss"> <div class="field field--name-field-media-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/patty-lipka-and-reggie-duncan-make-oobleck-dirty-hands-1500x778.jpg" alt="A man and a woman stand over a mixing bowl in a kitchen studio, their hands covered in a white, gooey substance. " /> </div> </article> <p>Educators Patty Lipka of the Cade Museum and the USPTO's Reggie Duncan make Oobleck out of corn... - 23 Okt. 2024
Changing the world through innovation: Celebrating and empowering people with disabilities
<article class="media media--type-image media--view-mode-rss"> <div class="field field--name-field-media-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/joi1023_rbryantcampinvent.jpg" alt="Robert Bryant in a yellow polo shirt and khaki shorts with a National Inventors Hall of Fame medal around his next observes a young girl with brown hair, blue shirt, and blue shorts explain her project in a classroom" /> </div> </article> <p>A young Camp Invention participant shows Dr. Robert Bryant, a prolific inventor and NASA scientist... - 05 Sep. 2024
Celebrating 25 years of USPTO’s Public Advisory Committees
<article class="media media--type-image media--view-mode-rss"> <div class="field field--name-field-media-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/clinton-bill-signing-1500.jpg" alt="Then-President Bill Clinton signs an appropriations bill that includes the Patent and Trademark Office Efficiency Act into law, in the Rose Garden on November 29, 1999. Clinton is seated and pictured in the middle of the image, surrounded by police and other officials who are standing. The desk Clinton is using to sign the bill says on the front, 'a strong budget for a strong America.' The photo was taken by David Scull and provided courtesy of the William J. Clinton Presidential Library." /> </div> </article> <p>President Bill Clinton signs into law an appropriations bill that includes the Patent and... - 24 Juli 2024
Update on USPTO response to CrowdStrike IT outage
<article class="media media--type-image media--view-mode-rss"> <div class="field field--name-field-media-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/20240722_crowdstrike.jpg" alt="USPTO technical staff assist employees affected by the IT outage" /> </div> </article> <p><span class="ui-provider ed cnp bgu cwk cwl cwm cwn cwo cwp cwq cwr cws cwt cwu cwv cww cwx cwy cwz cxa cxb cxc cxd cxe cxf cxg cxh cxi cxj cxk cxl cxm cxn cxo cxp" dir="ltr">USPTO technical staff assist employees affected by the IT outage. (Photo by Michael Connor/USPTO)</span></p> <p>On behalf of... - 18 Juli 2024
From military service to the USPTO and back
<article class="media media--type-image media--view-mode-rss"> <div class="field field--name-field-media-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/kayley_uh1.jpg" alt="Major Kayley Squire, Air Force policy fellow at the USPTO, during her time in the Air Force as an aide-de-camp" /> </div> </article> <p>Major Kayley Squire as an aide-de-camp during her service in the U.S. Air Force. (Photo courtesy...