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Who is running the USPTO?
Since Donald Trump's inauguration, there has been confusion about who is running the USPTO. The USPTO's site says it is Michelle Lee, but the Department of Commerce's site (which is in charge of the USPTO) says the position is vacant. Because of a quirk in federal...
Another one bites the dust (design patent valuations expected to drop)
Download the PDF here It never made sense to me that design patents -- patents that protect an ornamental design instead of a functional aspect of a device -- used a formula for determining damages that made them far more valuable than utility patents. District...

A brief post about USPTO events
Download the PDF here The United States Patent and Trademark Office regularly holds events targeted all the various stakeholders it serves -- inventors, startups, big companies, attorneys, trademark owners, etc. The events are all listed on the USPTO website,...

First Amendment v. Limits on Trademarks: On to the Supreme Court
First Amendment v. Limits on Trademarks: On to the Supreme Court
Original US Government Works and Other Free-to-use Materials
Download the PDF here Original US Government works are not subject to copyright. The law is about as clear as it can be: Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not...