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USPTO Opens New Electronic Facility to Hear Patent and Trademark
The USPTO is committed to the President’s management agenda goal of citizen-centered operations,” said Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Jon Dudas. “Our electronic hearing room is another way in which we are fulfilling the President’s goals. The new cyber hearing room saves our customers time and money, because they don’t need to travel to our office in order to be heard.”
The BPAI held its first set of hearings this afternoon in the new Electronic Hearing Room while the appellants participated electronically from Chicago. The electronic hearing room allows for an oral hearing on a patent appeal or other patent and trademark cases from remote locations anywhere in the world. While three administrative patent or trademark judges preside from the USPTO in Alexandria, Va., an attorney can present a client’s case from across the country or across the ocean.
Through the use of a large plasma screen in the new hearing room and computers, patent and trademark judges are able to see the presenting attorney and receive evidentiary documents electronically. Hearings are conducted as usual even though the parties are hundreds or thousands of miles apart.
Many law firms have purchased the necessary equipment so their attorneys can conduct electronic hearings with BPAI and TTAB. Attorneys can also participate in oral hearings from Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries located in Sunnyvale, California; Detroit, Michigan; and at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.
Definition:
The term or length of time that an intellectual property right lasts. As a result of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, U.S. law was changed, effective June 8, 1995, to adopt a patent term of 20 years from the date on which the patent application was filed.
Renewal
Definition:
The extension of a registration of a trademark or the extension of a copyright.
Section 301
Definition:
U.S. Omnibus Trade Act of 1988 gives the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) discretion to unilaterally enforce sanctions in response to unreasonable, unjustifiable, or discriminatory foreign government practices that burden or restrict U.S. commerce.
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