AUTM and USPTO Announce Joint Initiative Deerfield, IL — The Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced a joint program today during the AUTM Annual Meeting in Anaheim Calif. The USPTO/AUTM Patent Examiners Training Initiative aims to foster the development of relationships between patent examiners and innovators/scientists to better understand technologies and examination challenges; as well as to seek solutions.
The USPTO/AUTM Patent Examiners Training Initiative will enhance the USPTO’s current training program, the Patent Examiner Technical Training Program (PETTP). Launched in 2010, the PETTP updates supervisors and senior patent examiners on technical developments, the state of the art, emerging trends, maturing technologies, and recent innovations. PETTP provides the patent examiners, working directly in the various technology sectors throughout the USPTO, with necessary training from scientists and experts.
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