USPTO Director’s Forum Blog

Patents for Humanity

Sweeping revolutions in technology continue to fundamentally redefine the way we connect with one another and interact with the world. Today, an entrepreneur can do business with a remote village across an ocean just as quickly as a student in Boston can video-conference with a professor in Beijing. Political rallies can be organized by the click of a button, while gripping images of that rally can be shared across continents with a single tw...

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It appears PlasmERG has developed a reveloutionary new noble gas engine that will wean us of oil.  Check it out.
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Please bend the ear of anyone you know to prevent house's destruction of First To Invent. 

There is no excuse for an organization having only one person on email.  I will take it upon myself to gather everyone's email who wants real notice at the next meeting.  I find calling 50 people a chore Major corporations have stopped advertising web sites. 

Let me know so I can put it on facebook.  Which has been opened to another member.

This delay on the house bill is inexcusable.  We should be expan...
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Maybe you know someone who understands the mishmash of bills etc. in congress.  There is a bill that I think hasn't passed but maybe it has.  This amendment was defeated soundly.  This  amendment would have kept first to invent.

Suggestions for first page of web site which google sees better than other pages.

Keep our jobs, innovation here.  STOP congress from gutting our patent system.  Think we have the best manufacturing,legal system, education in the world?  Probably not.  We do have the be...
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Wonderful news! We have arranged to have a very distinguished speaker for our October 2, 2010 meeting, which we will move to a larger facility. The library has expressed interest in hosting this upcoming event as well as two universities and possibly the Burnham Institute. Our speaker will be Dr. Forrest M. Bird, inventor of the life-saving respirator which is found in most hospitals around the world.He is a very accomplished inventor, entrepreneur, and aviator, and he was installed in the In...
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