Friday, January 26, 2018

11th Annual Texas STEM Conference

The Texas STEM Coalition invites you to Galveston to join in on the largest gathering of STEM educators in the state of Texas. Be part of over 1,100 STEM supporters as we learn about the most cutting-edge STEM Technologies and STEM Best Practices, maximize STEM Leadership Capacity, and learn about developing Successful Partnerships.


Representatives from the USPTO Education and Outreach Team and the Texas Regional Office will participate at this event as a speaker and also host a booth. This 3-day conference will be held at Moody Gardens Hotel and Convention Center in Galveston, TX.


Registration (link is external) for the conference is currently open. For more information please visit the Texas STEM Conference homepage (link is external).

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Inventor info Chat

The USPTO’s Inventor Info Chat webinar series continues Thursday, Jan. 18, from 11 a.m. - noon ET with an “Overview of the Patent Examination Process.”
Topics will include:
  • When to expect a response from the USPTO
  • What examiners consider
  • Talking to a patent examiner about your invention
  • Office actions
For more information, and to register for this free webinar, please visit our Inventor Info webinar event page.

Thursday, January 4, 2018

Patent Quality Chat

The USPTO’s Patent Quality Chat webinar series kicks off 2018 on Tuesday, Jan. 9, from noon – 1 p.m. ET to discuss “Unlocking Open Data for our Patent Customers."
We recently released our most comprehensive dataset of over 4.4 million office actions onto our Open Data Portal. USPTO data experts will discuss how you can leverage this data in bulk or by using new application program interfaces (APIs) that focus on citations used by examiners to reject claims using prior art and particular types of rejections used by examiners, such as rejections under 35 U.S.C. 101 or 35 U.S.C. 103.
The Patent Quality Chat webinar series is presented as a part of the USPTO’s continuous efforts to improve patent quality.  More information is available on the chat event page.

Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Meet the Patent Experts - Class 2


The Meet the Patent Experts will be held on January 17, 2018 from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, CT at the USPTO-Texas Regional Office. This is Class 2 of the 4-part series and part of our ongoing outreach to independent inventors, entrepreneurs, and small businesses. During this seminar you will have the opportunity to learn about provisional applications and key aspects of filing.


If you are unable to come to the Texas Regional Office in Dallas, TX, this event will be webcasted to Patent & Trademark Resource Centers (PTRCs) in the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas.  Please click HERE to find the PTRC nearest to you.  Please call ahead to ensure the seminar is being shown at your particular PTRC.

For inquiries about the event: please email TXROevents@uspto.gov, visit us at the https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/uspto-locations/dallas-texas, or call us at 469-295-9000.

Meet the Trademark Experts

The Meet the Trademark Experts will be held on Wednesday, January 10, 2018 from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, CT at the USPTO-Texas Regional Office. This is part of our ongoing outreach to independent inventors, entrepreneurs, and small businesses. During this seminar you will have the opportunity to learn about trademark and the trademark process along with how to file a trademark application.


If you are unable to come to the Texas Regional Office in Dallas, TX, this event will be webcasted to Patent & Trademark Resource Centers (PTRCs) in the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas.  Please click HERE to find the PTRC nearest to you.  Please call ahead to ensure the seminar is being shown at your particular PTRC.

For inquiries about the event: please email TXROevents@uspto.gov, visit us at the https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/uspto-locations/dallas-texas, or call us at 469-295-9000.