Rocky Mountain Region Wide Trademark Tuesday "Lunch and Learn"
Event Information
Description
The Rocky Mountain Regional U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), in collaboration with other partners located across the Rocky Mountain region (see available locations below), will host quarterly interactive sessions with experts from the USPTO's Trademark Assistance Center (TAC), which is based at USPTO Headquarters in Alexandria, VA. During these virtual programs, TAC experts will provide an overview of various aspects of the trademark registration process, and answer any questions that program participants may have.
USPTO's Commissioner for Trademarks Mary Boney Denison will launch the first quarterly program on September 20th, 2016. The program will be hosted across the Rocky Mountain region with our partners at 11:30 AM Mountain Time/12:30 PM Central Time at the following locations:
Rocky Mountain Regional U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
1961 Stout Street
14th Floor
Denver, CO 80294
For more information, please contact David Le
Boise Business Accelerator
520 West Idaho
Boise, ID 83702
For more information, please contact Kim Sherman-Labrum
Wichita State University
Devlin Hall - WIDGET Space
1845 Fairmount Street
Wichita, KS 67260
For more information, please contact Sherry Gegen
Montana State University
MSU TechLink Center
MMEC/WTI Conference Room, Room #116
2310 University Way, Building 2
Bozeman, MT 59715
(Take 7th ave south from Kagy Blvd until it terminates in a parking lot. Building 2 is adjacent to this lot.)
For more information, please contact Daniel Juliano
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Nebraska Law, UNL East Campus,
Room 111 – Hamann Auditorium
1875 North 42nd Street
Lincoln, NE 68503
For more information, please contact Courtney Grate
Salt Lake City Community College
9690 South 300 West
MCPC Room #333
Sandy, UT 84070
For more information, please contact Mary Cardon or Beth Colosimo
NOTE: During the registration process, you will be asked to indicate from which location you will be participating.
This event is free and open to the public. Please bring your own lunch to enjoy during the session. Space is limited. This event is intended for individuals with a beginning to intermediate level of trademark knowledge. To get the most out of this event, we recommend participants view some of the informational videos regarding trademark registration (www.uspto.gov/trademark) before the session and prepare specific questions to ask the experts.
Please note that if you are attending at the Rocky Mountain Regional Office of the USPTO, it is located in a federal facility. Visitors are required to present a valid form of government-issued identification (driver license or passport) and will be subject to security screening to gain access.
Organizer Rocky Mountain U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Organizer of Rocky Mountain Region Wide Trademark Tuesday "Lunch and Learn"
The Rocky Mountain Regional Office in Denver serves the Rocky Mountain region, including Idaho, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas.
The office provides outreach services for inventors, entrepreneurs, startups, researchers and others to:
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Obtain information about the USPTO through walk-in services.
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Search existing patents and trademarks on designated workstations.
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Attend workshops, trainings, conferences and roundtables designed for various experience levels.
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Use collaborative spaces enabling region educators, inventors, entrepreneurs, and IP community to collaborate while allowing USPTO to provide them with information and resources.
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Take public tours
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Use interview rooms for applicants to connect with working at USPTO headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia and across the country.
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Meet with our strategic Federal partners, like the Small Business Administration, Consumer Product Safety Commission, and other bureaus at the Department of Commerce, on programs for small businesses and the entrepreneurial community during scheduled office hours at our Denver location.
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Gain remote access to Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) proceedings at USPTO headquarters and other regional offices in the future. The office also has a hearing room to host PTAB proceedings.
