USPTO Urged To Expand Patent Bar Eligibility To Designers
ADVERTISEMENT USPTO Urged To Expand Patent Bar Eligibility To Designers Law360 (February 12, 2021, 6:48 PM EST) -- Expanding patent bar eligibility requirements to design patent practitioners would increase the number of women patent attorneys and women patentees, a former Ropes & Gray LLP intellectual property partner and the director of the IP program at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law have argued in a letter to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Jeanne Curtis, who teaches at the University of New Hampshire School of Law, co-authored the letter with Chris Buccafusco, director of the ...