New USPTO COVID-19 Initiatives
By EsqSocial Corporation 11/05/21
As much of the United States is taking steps towards “getting back to normal,” the USPTO continues to implement programs to encourage investment and innovation in technologies addressing the COVID-19 pandemic. Recently, the USPTO expanded the Patents for Humanity program to add a category for COVID-19 related inventions and separately rolled out a new pilot program offering fee-free expedited ex parte appeals for patent applications related to certain categories of COVID-19 inventions......
By: Foley & Lardner LLP