USPTO Regional Outreach Workplace celebrates 10 years of IP productiveness
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On June 30, 2014, for the primary time in its almost 200 years, the patent workplace had a significant presence west of the Mississippi River. Ten years later, the USPTO’s Rocky Mountain Regional Outreach Workplace remains to be making historical past.
The ten-year anniversary occasion on August 23 celebrated the area’s outstanding report of mental property (IP) participation that options comparatively strong exercise from ladies inventors. The Denver occasion—led by Kathi Vidal, beneath secretary of commerce for mental property and director of the USPTO—included insightful talks, interactive periods and networking.
The Rocky Mountain Workplace serves Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming. Inventors on this area have acquired greater than 126,000 patents up to now ten years. Ladies inventors had been named on 21 % of the entire patents, in comparison with about 13 % for the US as an entire.
Colorado led the nine-state group with over 53,000 patents and the best proportion of patents with ladies inventors (23 %).
The Centennial State additionally led the area in logos with 4,300 of its almost 14,700 new registrations.
