AIA Changes Only Days Away
Back to school everyone…..the USPTO will kick off its AIA roadshow series in Minneapolis on September 10th and finish up in New York City on September 28th. The roadshow program will explain the final rules and answer audience questions. The agency also will discuss proposed rules for the first-inventor-to-file provision. Additional stops will be made along the way in Atlanta, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, and Alexandria, Virginia. The full schedule is shown below:
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Monday, September 10 |
Minneapolis, MN |
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Wednesday, September 12 |
Alexandria, VA |
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Friday, September 14 |
Los Angeles, CA |
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Monday, September 17 |
Denver, CO |
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Thursday, September 20 |
Detroit, MI |
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Monday, September 24 |
Atlanta, GA |
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Wednesday, September 26 |
Houston, TX |
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Friday, September 28 |
New York, NY |
Later this week, the USPTO will be conducting a training session at the Alexandria USPTO campus (also available by webinar) on the new electronic filing system of the Patent Trial & Appeal Board, which is known as the Patent Review Processing System (PRPS). Information below:
To help potential users of the PRPS electronic filing system, the Office will hold a training session from 10 am – noon on Thursday, September 6, 2012, in the North Auditorium of the Madison Building at the Alexandria Campus of the USPTO. The training session will also be broadcast via WebEx. Information to connect to the training session via WebEx is provided below.
- Date and Time: Thursday, September 6, 2012 10:00 am, Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00)
- Event number: 991 880 392
- Event password: 123456
- Event address for attendees: https://uspto-events.webex.com/uspto-events/onstage/g.php?d=991880392&t=a
WebEx participants will be able to submit questions through the WebEx chat session.