Blog by Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO
“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier’.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson
The end of a year is always a time for reflection on what we’ve accomplished and where we want to go. In 2020, the world faced a pandemic unlike anything we have seen in a century. Yet, as they always do during difficult times, inventors and entrepreneurs rose to the challenge.