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#USPTO
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#USPTO is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 6 people shared 26 posts with it — around 1 a day. Activity is down 67% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 16 with 6 posts.
#USPTO posts per day (last 30 days)
Posts with #USPTO
The White House just declared that the #USPTO, #ITC, and much of #NOA, as well as the Bureau of Reclamation are "have as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative, or national security work" and therefore cannot have unions.
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#USPTO has emailed examiners with a memo suggesting that, for now, they are largely shielded from return-to-office mandate through union protections. The POPA collective bargaining agreement is the crucial buffer as the agency implements the new White House directive. patentlyo.com/patent/2025/...
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Most Patent Examiners Protected from USPTO Return-to-Office Mandate (for now) Through Union Agreement
by Dennis Crouch USPTO Commissioner for Patents Vaishali Udupa released guidance yesterday regarding the agency's implementation of President Trump's return-to-in-person …
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So great to hear that the #USPTO is now mandating a return to "in person" PTAB hearings. So, good news, everyone - now you have to get on a plane - that may or may not collide with another plane - to get to a hearing for a client that could have been easily done virtually. Because freedom, I guess.
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1/4 #OnThisDay in 1836, the U.S. Patent Office in Washington, D.C., burned in what became known as the Great Patent Fire. The blaze destroyed all 9,957 patent records and roughly 7,000 patent models, wiping out much of the early U.S. patent archive.
#OTD #PatentHistory #Patents #USPTO
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ICYMI: Big design patent news from the #USPTO last week:
1. New design patent bar!
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2. No design patents for disembodied designs!
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1/3 On this day in 1743, Thomas Jefferson was born.
He is remembered as a Founding Father and as the third President of the United States, but he also has a place in patent history.
#OnThisDay #OTD #PatentHistory #Patents #USPTO
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Just called the #USPTO regarding a patent application filed in February that has not been processed yet by pre-exam. The wait time for the Application Assistance Unit is 140 minutes. They close for the week in 52 minutes. I'm so glad that America is Great Again.
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The U.S. #IP system serves as an engine of American #discovery, competition, and economic growth.
A new #USPTO report found that IP-intensive industries accounted for 44% of the U.S. #GDP and supported 65.8 million #jobs in 2024.
Dig into the data:
www.uspto.gov
Intellectual property and the U.S. economy in 2024
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⚠️ What Could Trademark Infringement Cost Your Business?
#TrademarkRegistration #BrandProtection #TrademarkLaw #USPTO #ProtectYourBrand #BusinessOwner #Entrepreneur #SmallBusiness #StartupBusiness
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Breaking trademark news! The USPTO has just released the final rule for the upcoming FY 2025 trademark fee changes. The rule will publish on 11/18.
I've screenshotted all the tables showing both the old and the new fees. #trademarks #uspto
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The U.S. #IP system serves as an engine of American #discovery, competition, and economic growth.
A new #USPTO report found that IP-intensive industries accounted for 44% of the U.S. #GDP and supported 65.8 million #jobs in 2024.
Dig into the data:
www.uspto.gov
Intellectual property and the U.S. economy in 2024
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Blackwatch International Secures $62.3 Million Contract with the USPTO for IT Support Services #USA #McLean #IT_Support #USPTO #Blackwatch_International
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Blackwatch International Secures $62.3 Million Contract with the USPTO for IT Support Services
Blackwatch International has been awarded a $62.3 million contract by USPTO to provide IT support services, enhancing their longstanding partnership.
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Two examiners in the same art unit. Same technology, same SPE, applications assigned to them essentially at random. One issues a restriction requirement on 8% of the applications. The other 26%. Problem isn't restrictions. Odds are #unpredictable in a way applicants don't expect. #uspto #patents
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📣 Today, C4IP applauds the NAI and #USPTO for launching a 5-year initiative to strengthen America's #innovation ecosystem.
C4IP will serve as a founding coalition partner in the effort, which aims to expand #IP education, accelerate commercialization, and foster greater cross-sector collaboration.
c4ip.org
Council for Innovation Promotion Applauds New NAI-USPTO Innovation Initiative
WASHINGTON (July 28, 2026) — Today, the Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP) applauded the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for launching a…
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Three findings that matter:
1. Which local LLM you pick matters 3x more than going local at all.
2. Every local LLM we tested fabricated its evidence when asked to score claims.
3. You need a 64 GB machine to run the best local model.
Local-first #patent drafting. #inventions #USPTO
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A restriction tells an applicant their application claims more than one invention: pick one, pursue the rest later. Mostly they do not. Of applications told to divide, 37% patent the elected invention and file nothing for the remainder. #USPTO #patents #restriction #ip
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How often the patent office tells you your application covers more than one invention depends heavily on the field.
Chemistry and materials: about 45% of applications. Software and computing: about 8%.
Same office, same rulebook. From every US utility application filed since 2020. #USPTO #patents
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In the News 📰
MLex's story on last week's #Senate Judiciary Committee #PERA hearing highlights C4IP Co-Chair and former #USPTO Director Andrei Iancu's testimony on the topic.
Read it here:
www.mlex.com
Human gene patent eligibility scrutinized at US Senate hearing | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
A Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday on a proposal to broaden patent eligibility focused on how to limit consequences for human genome researchers amid criticism the bill could go too far.…
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In a new article for The National Interest, C4IP Co-Chair and former #USPTO Director David Kappos and China #IP policy scholar Mark Cohen warn that #China is strengthening its IP system as the #UnitedStates retreats from its historic role as an IP champion.
Read more:
c4ip.org
Op-ed In Brief: How China Is Winning the Global Intellectual Property Race
In a new article for The National Interest, C4IP Co-Chair and former USPTO Director David Kappos and China intellectual property (IP) policy scholar Mark Cohen warn that China is strengthening its…
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This is why we built #Hearts the first-ever #pay-per-match dating app. Everything is free on the app. No subscriptions. When two people want to start chatting, they pay $1 and match with each other. It’s that simple. #Hearts was awarded a #USPTO patent for its innovative #pay-per-match model.
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