USPTO Deploys New Intellectual Property Online Free Video Training Modules

The USPTO’s Global Intellectual Property Academy (GIPA) developed a new series of intellectual property video training modules to supplement its training mission for developing and least developed countries.  There are six modules that cover: patents, copyrights, trademarks, geographic indicators, enforcement and trade.  Here are the English versions:

• Patent Protection
• Copyright: Encouraging and Protecting Creativity
• Overview of Trademarks
• Geographical Indications
• International Standards for the Enforcement of IPR
• Trade and Intellectual Property Rights

For further information and to view the new training modules, visit: http://www.uspto.gov/ip/training/index.jsp
and http://www.uspto.gov/ip/training/elearn.jsp

USPTO will pilot a program to accelerate the examination of certain green technology patent applications

Pending patent applications in green technologies will be eligible to be accorded special status and given expedited examination, which will have the effect of reducing the time it takes to patent these technologies by an average of one year. Earlier patenting of these technologies enables inventors to secure funding, create businesses, and bring vital green technologies into use much sooner.

USPTO – New Program to speed up Examination for Small Entities

The temporary pilot program will allow a patent application from a small entity to receive special, accelerated status if the applicant is willing to abandon an application that has not been examined.

A goal of this program is to reduce the backlog of cases at the USPTO. For details see:

http://www.uspto.gov/patents/law/notices/74fr62285.pdf

http://uspto.gov/news/pr/2009/09_26.jsp  Initial press release 11/06/2009