The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Green Technology Pilot Program allows patent applicants to petition for accelerated examination if their patent application deals with “environmental quality, energy conservation, development of renewable energy, or greenhouse gas emission reduction.” The USPTO recently announced that under this pilot program, it has now allowed 500 patents. According to the… Continue reading Accelerated Examination for Green Technology Patents
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Organizations for Inventors
The USPTO publishes a newsletter geared toward independent inventors called the Inventors Eye. The most recent edition includes a list of organizations for inventors by state. If you are interested in meeting inventors near you, check it out! You can also subscribe to the Inventors Eye by following the foregoing links.
USPTO August 2011 Patent Examination Performance Overview
The USPTO has released its performance “Patent Dashboard” for the month of August, 2011. The dashboard is a webpage showing numerous metrics related to the PTO’s patent application backlog, pendency rates, quality scores, and other data. The dashboard is a measuring stick for the USPTO’s patent quality measurement procedures (how the USPTO started measuring its… Continue reading USPTO August 2011 Patent Examination Performance Overview