Initiatives & Events

• A centralized listing of major Patent Application Initiatives provides applicants with access to information on several patent initiatives designed to advance and support the examination process. Compare the various patent application initiatives that are available prior to examination, during examination, or after close of prosecution to evaluate and contrast the benefits of participating.

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• Executive Actions on High Tech Patent Issues

  • Attributable Ownership
  • Patents for Humanity an awards competition for patent owners and licensees (2013)
    • Redeeming a Patents for Humanity Certificate
  • Patent Examiner Technical Training Program

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• Leahy-Smith America Invents Act Implementation
• Preissuance Submissions
• Software Partnership
  • Glossary Initiative
  • Prior Art Search
• Site Experience Education (SEE) Program
• New Patent Examiner Count System
• Patents Ombudsman Pilot Program

• Roundtable on USPTO Use of Crowdsourcing to Identify Relevant Prior Art to be held in New York City on Dec.2 
• Webinar on Research into Issues Bearing on Abusive Patent Litigation featuring Edison Research Scholars, December 9, 2014, noon to 1 pm
• Biotechnology/Chemical/Pharmaceutical Customer Partnership Conferences (ongoing)
      index to all meeting announcements

• First Cybersecurity Partnership Meeting at the Silicon Valley USPTO, November 14, 2014
• AIA FIrst Inventor to File Roadshows, September 16 through October 9, 2014
• Patent Litigation Toolkit Free Webinar, September 18, 2014, noon to 1 pm ET
• Software Partnership Meeting - Alexandria, VA (July 22, 2014)
• Forum on the Guidance For Determining Subject Matter Eligibility of Claims Reciting or Involving Laws of Nature, Natural Phenomena, and Natural Products (May 9, 2014)
• Roundtable on the Use of Crowdsourcing and Third-Party Preissuance Submissions To Identify Relevant Prior Art (April 10, 2014)
• Roundtable on the Written Description Requirement for Design Applications (March 5, 2014)
• Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Outreach (IdeaScale and feedback/2013 meetings)
• USPTO Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) External User Day - December 14, 2012
  • CPC User Day (Video)  Webcast of the December 2012 CPC event undertaken by the USPTO to educate and inform external stakeholders about the CPC system
• Patents End-to-End (PE2E) Demo (Video) Webcast of the PE2E Demo with an introduction by Director Kappos on the advantages it will bring to both examiners and applicants (December 2012)
• Streamlined Patent Reexamination Proceedings Roundtable (June 1, 2011)