On March 6, 2012, without much fanfare the United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded Apple Patent Number 8, 127, 982.
In a bit of bad timing for Schmidt, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a Google patent today for a celebrity facial recognition database.
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Such assessment is easier if the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has reviewed any relevant patent applications.
Presselite asked Apple to remove the Q Mapps app from its store but was found to have had its trademark application rejected by the US Patent and Trademark Office.
Identix Pharmaceuticals slumped 10% after unfavorable ruling by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ruled against the company regarding its patent applications for certain compounds used in its hepatitis C treatment.
Then last week, the trademark was granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Apple has been denied a trademark for the popular iPad Mini by the US Patent and Trademark Office.
This applied both to patent application filing decisions and to those made during negotiations with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as part of the process of obtaining a patent.
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Meanwhile, word is out that the US Patent and Trademark Office has issued a final rejection of another NTP patent, following the first such rejection, which occurred earlier this week.
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It would ask the Patent and Trademark Office to reexamine (and revoke) patents asserted by patent trolls.
The backlogged Patent and Trademark Office can take up to four years to approve a patent application.
In a major setback for Apple, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a preliminary ruling invalidating this patent.
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has two months to contest a decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which ruled that the Steve Jobs multi-touch patent is invalid.
Also adding to the anxiety: a Supreme Court decision in April setting higher standards for obtaining a patent and new rules from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office last month that, among other things, limit the number of continuing patent applications that can be filed.
Worse, the company's chief asset--its nifty software--still has no patent or trademark protection (see radar graph).
In fact, the Patent and Trademark Office has no control over the revenue it earns.
Now I work as a patent examiner for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
All you need to do is file the papers with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office website shows a registration filed January 14, 2013.
In here are copies (the National Archives keeps the originals) of every patent and trademark ever awarded.
Kodak reports that the patent was recently upheld as valid by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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The US Patent and Trademark Office has ruled that 20 patents relating to scroll technology "lack novelty".
It has also inspired a plethora of Chinese firms to attack Apple over patent and trademark infringement.
It used to take a year or more to secure one from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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There are genetic patents already granted by the patent and trademark office, and some have survived legal challenges.
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According to my reading of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office database, "Rae's Creek" just might be permissible.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office issued KODAK its first trademark registration 100 years ago this week.
It could take up to three months for officials at the United States Patent and Trademark Office to decide.
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Those 100 names will be checked against the list of registered names with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
In most cases, patent holders must spend years in the lab and in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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