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2. Trademark examiner - Wikipedia

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   A trademark examiner is an attorney employed by a government entity such as the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to determine whether an applicant should be permitted to receive a trademark registration, thus affording legal protection to the applicant's trademark. [1]

3. Patent examiner - Wikipedia

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   Patent examiners at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) examine patent applications for claims of new inventions. Examiners make determinations of patentability based on policies and guidance from this agency, in compliance with federal laws (Title 35 of the United States Code), rules, judicial precedents, and guidance from agency administrators.

4. United States Patent and Trademark Office - Wikipedia

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   The USPTO expected to continue hiring patent examiners at a rate of approximately 1,200 per year through 2012; however, due to a slowdown in new application filings since the onset of the late-2000s economic crisis, [57] and projections of substantial declines in maintenance fees in coming years, [58] the agency imposed a hiring freeze in early ...

5. Backlog of unexamined patent applications - Wikipedia

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   The most effective USPTO practice of raising its revenues takes advantage of the lack of unity of invention definition in the US patent law, and of non-judicable nature of examiner's restriction requirement to split original application into numerous divisionals (each of these divisionals charges a separate set fees, even though the content ...

6. Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property

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   David Kappos (right) being sworn in as Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and USPTO Director, by Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke, as Kappos's wife, Leslie, holds the bible, August 13, 2009. Kathi Vidal currently serves as Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, assuming the role in 2022.

7. Public participation in patent examination - Wikipedia

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   The involvement of the public in patent examination is used in some forms to help identifying relevant prior art and, more generally, to help assessing whether patent applications and inventions meet the requirements of patent law, such as novelty, inventive step or non-obviousness, and sufficiency of disclosure.

8. Peer-to-Patent - Wikipedia

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   The USPTO pilot, officially announced in the USPTO's Official Gazette of 26 June 2007, [14] was initially restricted to patent applications from Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software and Information Security) that are voluntarily submitted to the project by the owner/assignee. The extended pilot has expanded to include so ...

9. United States trademark law - Wikipedia

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   Once the application is filed, it sits in a queue for a few months. Eventually, a USPTO Trademark Examiner will examine the application according to the rules of the Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure. If the Trademark Examiner identifies problems with the applications, the applicant will be sent a "preliminary rejection."