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Message from the President Rebecca M. McNeill

Message from the Editor

KIPO Commissioner Insil Lee’s Visit to the BIPLA

USPTO Pro Bono Update

Members on the Move

BIPLA Third Annual Symposium

BIPLA and KAIPBA Joint Press Release

BIPLA Legislative Committee Panel

Patent Office Practice Committee Update

G2/21 – “Plausibility”: using post-published evidence in Europe

BIPLA Writing Competition

USPTO Recognizes 2022 Patent Pro Bono Achievement Certificate Recipients

A notice from the USPTO Patent Pro Bono Team

A notice from the Diversity & Inclusion Committee

Celebration in Honor of the Judiciary

List of Officers and Board of Governors

Job Listings

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2023 Ⓒ Boston Intellectual Property Law Association

NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE

Volume 54, Issue 2

USPTO Recognizes 2022 Patent Pro Bono Achievement Certificate Recipients

The USPTO recently announced the recipients of the 2022 Patent Pro Bono Achievement Certificate. Each year, the USPTO recognizes individuals and law firms that have volunteered significant time and effort to help financially under-resourced inventors and small businesses protect their ideas. To learn about how you can support this worthwhile Program and receive recognition for your contributions, please see Director Kathi Vidal’s recent press release.

Your members who are patent practitioners are uniquely positioned to help financially under-resourced inventors and small businesses on their journey by volunteering to file and prosecute patent applications. So, please ask your membership to help those who could not otherwise afford to do so engage in our innovation economy.

Patent practitioners can volunteer through their local patent pro bono program. Please see http://artsandbusinesscouncil.org/patent-pro-bono-program/ or www.uspto.gov/probonopatents for more information on how to volunteer. To ensure that each inventor or small business who applies to a program is a good candidate for assistance, each local patent pro bono program screens applicants using criteria that include: (1) household income; (2) knowledge of the patent system; and (3) possession of an actual invention (not merely an idea) to ensure that each inventor or small business is a good candidate for assistance.

We welcome the opportunity to speak to your organization about the Patent Pro Bono Program. Please feel free to contact us with any questions.

As a courtesy, we ask that you forward this notice to the members of your organization. We believe that together we can make the Patent Pro Bono Program a lasting success!

Thank you,

The USPTO Patent Pro Bono Team

Office of Enrollment and Discipline

USPTO

www.uspto.gov/probonopatents

probono@uspto.gov