The new community engagement office, located at The University of Utah, will serve innovators in part of the eight-state area formerly serviced by the Rocky Mountain Regional Outreach Office.

This initiative will incentivize meaningful participation by U.S. small and medium-sized businesses, universities, and non-profits in standards development organizations (SDOs).

The USPTO reimagines its community engagement footprint as an agile model to meet innovators where they are.

Under this new initiative, certain pending utility patent applications that have no more than one independent claim and ten total claims may be advanced out of turn for their first Office action.

USPTO Director John A. Squires hosted the Trilateral Offices for the 43rd annual meeting at the USPTO headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia.

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