The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) has taken a significant procedural turn. In an open letter titled “Bringing the USPTO Back to ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) introduced a new pilot program offering expedited examination for certain pending, unexamined applications with narrowly tailored claim sets. The program ...

The USPTO announced that it would revisit its subject matter eligibility guidance today, July 25. USPTO director Kathi Vidal indicated in the blog post in which she announced the news that she wanted ...

The interior of the USPTO headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, in 2019. (Antony-22 / Wikimedia Commons) The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office said this week that it intends to award an estimated $70 ...

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has recently disclosed a data security incident involving domicile information in certain trademark filings between February 2020 and March 2023. According ...

Just one day after the USPTO issued proposed rules limiting the availability of inter partes review when the claims might be ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced today that certain intellectual property (IP)-related transactions are now authorized in Russia, following publication by the U.S. Department of ...

Department of Commerce files trademark applications for USPTO name and logo Move follows “rapid increase in sophistication” of scams targeting USPTO users US trademark commissioner admits “it’s never ...

“The joint study on NFTs is coming at a time when it has never been clearer that confusion abounds regarding IP rights in the NFT context…. Blockchain consulting firm Galaxy found that the vast ...

The US Department of Commerce’s OIG releases results of USPTO audit Claims USPTO trademark registration “not effective” in preventing fraud One expert “troubled by the Sinophobia underlying” the ...

PREFcards, the leading provider of surgical preference card optimization software, announced today it has been granted U.S. Patent No. 12,308,115, titled Automated Data Aggregation with File Analysis ...