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Patents

  • Patents accelerate the cycle of innovation
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    How patents accelerate the cycle of innovation
  • New Patent Design Unveiling at SxSW
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    In 2018, we unveiled a new patent cover design at SXSW. Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe and IBM master inventor Susann Keohane joined then USPTO Director Andrei Iancu and then Commissioner for Patents Drew Hirshfeld to officially present the new design.
  • USPTO Awards 2024 Patents and Trademarks for Humanity to Innovators in Green Tech Space
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    USPTO Awards 2024 Patents and Trademarks for Humanity to Innovators in Green Tech Space
  • 2025 National Patent Application Drafting Competition Overview
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    2025 National Patent Application Drafting Competition Overview
  • How to file your patent application documents in DOCX
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    This USPTO training session provides a comprehensive overview of how to file and retrieve DOCX files in Patent Center. Visit the DOCX information page for user guides and resources.
  • Learn about the USPTO's Legal Experience and Advancement Program (LEAP)
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    The USPTO’s Legal Experience and Advancement Program (LEAP) gives junior lawyers and practitioners the opportunity to build oral advocacy skills to participate in Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) proceedings. Learn more about how you can participate.
  • Combine a date search with other types of searches
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    In this video, you’ll learn how to limit a variety of searches using Patent Public Search by adding a date or date range, such as combining a title keyword search or an assignee search with a search of publication dates.
  • Search by assignee name and location
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    This microtutorial for Patent Public Search will show you how to locate U.S. patents and published patent applications assigned to particular companies and other entities. You can search by assignee name, city, and state.
  • View your results
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    Learn how to use the Document Viewer on Patent Public Search to navigate through the patents and published patent applications retrieved by your search.
  • Expand patent families
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    This video includes a discussion of U.S. patent families and shows how to expand families in your search results using Patent Public Search.
  • Search by inventor name
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    This microtutorial for Patent Public Search walks you through the steps of finding U.S. patents and published patent applications from particular inventors.
  • Print your results
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    This Patent Public Search tutorial will show you how to print a summary table of your search results and how to print individual U.S. patents or published patent applications.
  • Search with dates and date ranges
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    Learn how to find all U.S. patent documents published on, before, or after a particular date, or within a range of two dates using Patent Public Search.
  • EFS-Web and Private PAIR retirement
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    On November 15, 2023, we retired the EFS-Web system and Private Patent Application Information Retrieval tool, also known as "Private PAIR," and directed customers to Patent Center. To learn more, watch this video and check out our Patent Center webpage.
  • Making the transition to Patent Center
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    This USPTO training session provides a comprehensive overview of how to file, retrieve and manage applications in Patent Center. Visit the Patent Center information page for user guides and resources.
  • Using Patent Public Search Advanced to Search Designs
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    Learn how to use Patent Public Search (PPUBS) Advanced in this recorded demonstration with emphasis on design patent searching.
  • Inventor uses the USPTO’s Patent Pro Bono Program to advance accessibility technology
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    Watch the video to hear from inventor Abenezer Ayana and the patent practitioners who worked with him as part the USPTO’s Patent Pro Bono Program. Ayana is the founder and CEO of Braille Easy, a company that helps blind individuals learn and use braille. Learn more...

  • Public PAIR retirement
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    On July 31, 2022, we will retire the Public Patent Application Information Retrieval tool, also known as "Public PAIR," and begin directing customers to Patent Center. To learn more, watch this video and check out our Patent Center webpage. 

  • Quick overview of filing DOCX documents in Patent Center
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    This video shows how to file DOCX documents in the Patent Center training mode.
  • Speaker Series: Marian Croak
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    Dr. Marian Croak holds more than 200 patents and has more than 100 pending applications. Her many achievements include pioneering work advancing the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), developing text-to-donate technology, and work on the telephone network and...

  • Speaker Series: Dean Kamen
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    Inventor Dean Kamen and USPTO Director Andrei Iancu discussed Kamen's career and passion for inventing, as well as his dedication to the world’s youth through STEM education. Kamen is the inventor of the Segway and Auto Syringe. He is also an entrepreneur, and a...

  • Speaker Series: Martine Rothblatt
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    On December 4, 2019, USPTO Director Andrei Iancu and the creator of SiriusXM Satellite Radio, former CEO of GeoStar, and the founder and chairwoman of the Board of United Therapeutics Dr. Martine Rothblatt discussed her successes in areas ranging from...

  • Speaker Series: Vint Cerf
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    One of the "fathers of the internet," Vinton G. Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the original architecture of the online world. Currently vice president and chief internet evangelist for Google, he contributes to global policy development and the...

  • Speaker Series: Temple Grandin
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    Dr. Temple Grandin is an inventor and pioneer in improving the welfare of livestock. Her work on animal handling methods and facilities design has fundamentally changed the industry around the world. A best-selling author and popular TED Talk speaker, Grandin is...

  • Speaker Series: Lonnie Johnson
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    Dr. Lonnie Johnson, holder of more than 100 U.S. patents, spacecraft systems designer, energy innovator, and inventor of the Super Soaker®, joined USPTO Director Andrei Iancu for a talk on his work and journey of innovation. Johnson worked on the stealth bomber...

  • Speaker Series: Joseph Marron
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    USPTO welcomed Dr. Joseph Marron, the named inventor of the historic patent number 10 million, to share his insights about the milestone on August 8, 2018.

  • Interview video 4
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    Benefits of interviews from the viewpoints of an examiner, Supervisory Patent Examiner (SPE), and director.

  • Patents for Humanity
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    Patents for Humanity is the USPTO's awards competition recognizing innovators who use game-changing technology to meet global humanitarian challenges. The program provides business incentives for reaching those in need: winners receive an acceleration certificate...

  • Program Administrator: Patent Pro Bono Program
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    California's inventor assistance program administrator discusses who can qualify for the program and what inventors should do before applying.
  • Small Business Owner: Patent Pro Bono Program
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    An interview with a small business owner describing how she applied to the program and the benefits of participating.
  • Volunteer Attorney: Patent Pro Bono Program
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    An interview with an attorney on how to apply to volunteer and what to expect.
  • Inventor Requirements for the Patent Pro Bono Program
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    Learn the 3 requirements for inventors to participate in a program offering free legal help in applying for a patent to protect an invention.
  • How to Apply to the USPTO Patent Pro Bono Program
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    There are two ways to request free legal help through the program -- by region or directly.
  • Patent Pro Bono Program Overview
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    This program for free legal help is available in all 50 states. Each region decides the standards for inventor participation.
  • Intro to the USPTO Pro Bono Program
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    Inventors and small business may qualify for free legal help in applying for a patent or to protect an invention.
  • Global Dossier
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    Global Dossier is a set of business services that provides IP stakeholders free, secure, one-stop access to related patent applications from all participating IP offices.
  • First Inventor to File, Video #4
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    This is the fourth video in a series of four that cover the change in patent law to first-inventor-to-file.
  • First Inventor to File, Video #3
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    This is the third video in a series of four that cover the change in patent law to first-inventor-to-file.
  • First Inventor to File, Video #2
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    This is the second video in a series of four that cover the change in patent law to first-inventor-to-file.
  • First Inventor to File, Video #1
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    On March 16, a major change occurs in U.S. patent law.

Trademarks

Journeys of Innovation

  • Sticking to it
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    In this video on Art Fry, the inventor of Post-It notes, hear about his process, his career as an inventor, and his perspective on innovation today.
  • Genmoji's forced-air recovery solution
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    Watch an animated demonstration of how Genmoji’s Airmoji wind turbine works.
  • Genmoji's microgrid turbine
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    Watch Genmoji's microgrid turbine in action.
  • Cultivating community-driven change: Olin Kealoha Lagon
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    Tradition, compassion, and service motivate social entrepreneur and Native Hawaiian Olin Kealoha Lagon.
  • Damian Earley’s Garbage Lot
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    Young inventor Damian Earley researched, designed and patented a weighted platform with a locking mechanism for residential garbage cans. The intent of the platform is to prevent litter spillage onto neighborhood streets by in adverse weather conditions.
  • The Shining and the Steadicam®: an interview with inventor Garrett Brown
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    Who can forget the sinister and “supernaturally steady” film shots of The Shining? Watch inventor Garret Brown discuss how those shots were achieved with his newly-invented Steadicam®, patent no. 4,017,168.

USPTO for Kids & Teachers

  • Getting corny: Let’s make Oobleck!
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    Have you ever thought about all the inventors that make our Thanksgiving celebration possible? Get ready to meet these innovators on our Thanksgiving Day parade across your plate. Our first stop is pretty corny...because we’re talking all about corn! How we use...

  • Inventor Stories: Katia Avila Pinedo
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    Katia Avila Pinedo talks about the Heart & Sole, a device she invented to help diabetic people as part of the Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam. Grades K-5.
  • Youth Day: Inspiring students through Congressional App Challenge
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    This video is from USPTO's free Youth Day Program for student innovators, creators, and aspiring entrepreneurs. Students learn about app development and intellectual property by exploring the Congressional App Challenge. Student moderator Elvisa Ofori, a...

  • Learn about the USPTO's National Summer Teacher Institute (NSTI)
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    The National Summer Teacher Institute (NSTI) on innovation, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) combines experiential training tools, practices, and project-based learning models to support elementary, middle, and high school teachers and...

  • Science of Innovation -- What is Innovation?
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    Whether it happens among students in a classroom, or engineers in a laboratory, innovation is a process, a series of steps that begins with imagination, and results in the creation of something of value for society.
  • Science of Innovation -- 3-D Printing
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    3-D printing is an innovative manufacturing technique developed by Professors Michael Cima and Emanuel Sachs from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Science of Innovation -- Anti-Counterfeiting
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    Electronics, apparel, and pharmaceuticals are only some of the products counterfeiters try to fake.
  • Science of Innovation-- Biometrics
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    In a science known as biometrics, physical or behavioral characteristics are used for personal identification.
  • Science of Innovation-- Bionic Limbs
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    Professor Homayoon Kazerooni is a robotics engineer at the University of California, Berkeley with more than 40 patents to his name.
  • Science of Innovation-- Driverless Cars
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    At Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, computer scientist Sebastian Thrun and his team of software engineers are creating a fleet of self-driving cars.
  • Science of innovation-- Electronic Tattoo
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    Professors John Rogers and Yonggang Huang have collaborated to design and engineer an electronic tattoo.
  • Science of Innovation -- Biofuels
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    Professor Steve Hutcheson at the University of Maryland is developing a new approach to producing biofuels from cellulosic biomass, using a bacterium discovered in the Chesapeake Bay.
  • Science of Innovation-- Smart Concrete
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    Concrete is one of the most common construction materials in the world, with its basic technology dating back to the ancient Romans.
  • Science of Innovation-- Synthetic Diamonds
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    As an alternative to finding diamonds in nature for his scientific experiments, Professor Russell Hemley of the Geographical Laboratory at the Carnegie Institute of Washington creates an innovative method of making large synthetic diamonds in the laboratory.
  • Science of Innovation -- Fuel Cell Efficiency
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    Professors Reginald Farrow and Zafar Iqbal at the New Jersey Institute of Technology have collaborated on a series of innovations to make the energy conversion process that occurs within fuel cells as efficient as possible.
  • Science of Innovation: Friction Stir Welding
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    Welding has long been used to join pieces of metal together.
  • Science of Innovation: Motion Controller for Virtual Reality
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    William Provancher of Tactical Haptics has developed a device that combines the sense of touch with technology.
  • Science of Innovation: Micro-Fabrication for Cochlear Implants
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    Angelique Johnson is the CEO of MEMStim, a company that is innovating how electrode arrays in cochlear implants are manufactured.
  • Science of Innovation: Using Viruses to Make Batteries
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    While most people see viruses as harmful, Angela Belcher at MIT sees the future of energy.
  • Science of Innovation: Origami Structures
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    Origami is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding.
  • Science of Innovation: 3D Bioprinting
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    Adam Feinberg at Carnegie Mellon University has come up with a technique that expands the use of 3-D printing technology and could one day allow researchers to print heart tissue.
  • Anyone can be an inventor at Camp Invention
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    A day with students at a unique Camp Invention session. Camp Invention is a program run by the National Inventors Hall of Fame in conjunction with the United States Patent and Trademark office (USPTO)

Intellectual Property Basics

Transferring Ownership / Assignments

Inventors Hall of Fame and Museum

  • America's Ingenuity: Richard Franklin America & the Fight to Fulfill the Promise of Patents
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    This film focuses on Richard F. America, one of the youngest inventors on “Baker's list,” the first repository of Black patent holders compiled by lawyer, assistant patent examiner, and civil rights activist Henry E. Baker. The documentary features an interview...

  • Explore the History of Camp Invention
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    Since 1990, Camp Invention® has been guiding children to bring their biggest ideas to life through creativity and invention education. To learn more about this STEM program, please visit invent.org/camp.

  • Higgins Boat at the USPTO
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    Time lapse of the Higgins Boat arrival and installation at the USPTO headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. This particular Higgins Boat was on loan from D-Day Ohio to the National Inventors Hall of Fame Museum.

  • Introducing the 2019 NIHF Inductee Class
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    The National Inventors Hall of Fame® (NIHF) announced the 2019 Inductee Class. The 19 inventors will officially join the world-changing Inductees during the annual Induction Ceremony in May.

International IP

  • Meet the IP attachés: Helene Liwinski
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    Helene Liwinski explains the importance of U.S. representation at the World Intellectual Property Organization and the World Trade Organization.

  • Meet the IP Attachés: Marina Lamm
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    Watch Marina Lamm discuss her work in representing the United States at meetings of the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva.

  • Meet the IP Attachés: Rachel Bae
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    Watch Rachel Bae discuss her work as an IP attaché in Brussels.

  • E-commerce and China: Strategies for fighting online counterfeits, Part 1
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    E-commerce now accounts for nearly 14% of all retail sales and continues to grow at a healthy rate. But U.S. businesses engaged in e-commerce, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), face a number of challenges in protecting their intellectual...

  • Meet the IP Attachés: Conrad Wong
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    Conrad Wong discusses how he helped a U.S. company regain control of its proprietary molds and dies from a Chinese subcontractor that had filed for bankruptcy.

  • Meet the IP Attachés: Pete Mehravari
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    Pete Mehravari explains the importance of IP protection and enforcement in a region where the concept of intellectual property is still fairly new.

  • Meet the IP Attachés: John Cabeca
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    John Cabeca talks about his transition from helping U.S. companies on the West Coast of the United States to working on their behalf overseas.

  • Meet the IP Attachés: Cindy Henderson
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    Cindy Henderson discusses her interests in Latin America.

  • Meet the IP Attachés: Unified to Serve
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    The USPTO’s IP attachés are located in posts around the world. Meet these passionate intellectual property (IP) professionals and learn about their work to support the global IP community in this short video.

  • IP Attaché at USPTO
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    The United States Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) Intellectual Property (IP) Attaché Program works to improve IP systems internationally.

  • IP Attaché Program
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    The United States Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) Intellectual Property (IP) Attaché Program works to improve IP systems internationally.

  • USPTO Expanded Collaborative Search Pilot
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    Learn about the USPTO’s Collaborative Search Pilot (CSP), an initiative with partnering international IP Offices that allows those filing patent applications in partnering Offices to have their application fast-tracked and reviewed concurrently. Its free to file a CSP petition.

GIPA

  • Biopharma patents in China: Litigation, licensing, and patent linkage
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    As the past two years have shown, the biopharmaceutical industry is more important than ever in producing drugs that improve and save lives. For U.S. biopharmaceutical companies, China continues to be an important market. Securing and enforcing intellectual...

  • Trade Secrets
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    A brief introduction on what Trade Secrets are, why you should protect them, how they can impact a business’s bottom line, and their importance as Intellectual Property.
  • The Global Intellectual Property Academy – An Overview
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    This video provides a brief overview of the Global Intellectual Property Academy.

Work at the USPTO

  • USPTO on Military Makeover: Operation Career
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    Since 2012, the USPTO has hired more than 800 veterans. Three of these veterans were featured on the show Military Makeover to talk about their transition from military service to the USPTO. They also share insights on work-life balance, flexibility, and career...

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