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The office is headed by the under secretary of commerce for intellectual property and director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. As of December 2024 [update] , Derrick Brent is acting undersecretary and director, [ 9 ] having taken on that role upon the resignation of Kathi Vidal on December 13, 2024.
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Patent Application Information Retrieval (PAIR) is an online service provided by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to allow users to see the prosecution histories of United States patents and patent applications and obtain copies of documents filed therein. There are two services: Public PAIR, which allows the general public to ...
United States patent law required inventors to submit scale models of their inventions, which were retained by the Patent Office and required housing. In Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant's plan for the capital city, the site of the Patent Office Building, halfway between the Capitol and the President's House, was set aside for a monumental ...
Note: a Dickinson served in analogous role as Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks beginning in 1998. That position was transformed into the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office effective January 17, 2001.
John D. Craig (1766 – January 25, 1846) was third Superintendent of Patents of the United States, serving from June 11, 1829, to February 1, 1835. [1]Born in Ireland, he taught at the Baltimore Union School, and in 1828 led the founding of the Ohio Mechanics Institute of Cincinnati, which became the College of Engineering and Applied Science of the University of Cincinnati.
This legal system became the foundation for patent law in countries with a common law heritage, including the United States, New Zealand and Australia. In the Thirteen Colonies , inventors could obtain patents through petition to a given colony's legislature.
A survey of 12 industries from 1981 to 1983 shows that patent utilization is strong across all industries in the United States, with 50 percent or more patentable inventions being patented. [ 35 ] However, this is not to say that all industries believe their inventions have relied on the patent system or believe it is a necessity to introduce ...