Starting Tuesday, June 7, 2022, the US Patent and Trademark Office will begin issuing only electronic trademark registration certificates, accessible through the website https://tsdr.uspto.gov/. Trademark owners will have the option to request paper “presentation”...
Kathi Vidal was confirmed by the United States Senate as Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and as Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Kathi will lead the USPTO’s 13,000+ employees and its nearly $4 billion budget. She...
In January 2013, I had the privilege of being in the room with greatness. My husband, Tony, and I attended the Kenner Lecture on Cultural Understanding and Tolerance at Lehigh University. In an informal question and answer format, former Secretary of State Madeleine...
US utility patents have issued at a more rapid pace in the last ten years – see bar graph. While it took almost 15 years (from 1976 to 1991) for one-million US utility patents to issue between US Pat. 4,000,000 and US Pat. 5,000,000, the pace of patenting has...
In July 2020, the US Patent and Trademark Office released a report titled “Progress and Potential: 2020 Update on U.S. Women inventor-Patentees”. Building on the report released in 2019 [reported in AskPat here:...
On June 24, 2019, the Justices struck down as unconstitutional a provision of the Lanham Act (US Trademark Law) that prohibited granting federal trademark protection for “immoral” or “scandalous” material. The case was brought by Erik Brunetti,...
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