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USPTO Announces Bold New Initiative to Expense an NFL Weekend to Taxpayers While Pretending It’s “Education”

USPTO officials reportedly struggled to keep straight faces while announcing a groundbreaking federal mission: attending the 2026 NFL Draft® in Pittsburgh, on the theory that football fans desperately need trademark pamphlets between keg stands and 40-yard-dash highlights.

Trademark classification goes agentic with USPTO’s announcement of “Class ACT” assistant

America’s Branding Agency, the USPTO, announced the release of a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence (AI) agent that handles some of the most time-consuming elements of trademark application pre-processing.

USPTO and DOJ file statement of interest reaffirming the importance of incentives to innovate

The USPTO and the Department of Justice filed a statement of interest in Collision Communications, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., et al. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

Utah selected for new USPTO community engagement office location

The new community engagement office, located at The University of Utah, will serve innovators in part of the eight-state area formerly serviced by the Rocky Mountain Regional Outreach Office.

USPTO to launch SPARK Pilot Program to strengthen U.S. standards development leadership

This initiative will incentivize meaningful participation by U.S. small and medium-sized businesses, universities, and non-profits in standards development organizations (SDOs).

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