[Ecommerce] Tuesday April 25 USPTO Panel Discussion on Proposals to Improve Patent Examination

[Manon Ress]

Tuesday, April 25, 2006
2 p.m. =96 4 p.m.

WHERE:  =09United States Patent and Trademark Office
Madison auditorium
600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, Va.

For more information, please go to http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/
townhall.htm.

From: "Karen Sewell" <karen.sewell@uspto.gov>
Date: April 21, 2006 4:36:44 PM EDT
To: wnew@ip-watch.org
Subject: USPTO to Sponsor Panel Discussion on Proposals to Improve
Patent Examination


MEDIA ADVISORY=09=09=09=09=09CONTACT: Brigid Quinn or Ruth Nyblod
April 21, 2006=09=09=09=09=09=09(571) 272-8400 or brigid.quinn@uspto.gov;
#06-25=09=09=09=09=09=09=09ruth.nyblod@uspto.gov

USPTO to Sponsor Panel Discussion on Proposals to
Improve Patent Examination

Washington, D.C. =96 The United States Patent and Trademark Office
(USPTO) is holding a town hall meeting to educate the public on
USPTO=92s plans to streamline the application review process.  A four-
person panel representing a variety of organizations with interests
in the patent system will offer their views on the proposals which
are designed to ensure high quality patent examination and work
toward decreasing the backlog of pending applications.

WHAT:=09Town Hall Meeting
An overview of the challenges the USPTO faces and the reasons why
proposed new rules limiting claims and rework are necessary, panel
discussion and a question and answer session.

WHO:=09John Doll, Commissioner for Patents
Jay Lucas, Deputy Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy

Panel:  Suzanne Michel, Federal Trade Commission; Jay Thomas,
Georgetown Law School; Charles Van Horn, American Intellectual
Property Law Association; and Herbert C. Wamsley, Intellectual
Property Owners Association.

Patent attorneys, patent agents, independent inventors and members of
the small business community.

WHEN:  =09Tuesday, April 25, 2006
2 p.m. =96 4 p.m.

WHERE:  =09United States Patent and Trademark Office
Madison auditorium
600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, Va.

For more information, please go to http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/
townhall.htm.

###





************************************************
Manon Anne Ress
manon.ress@cptech.org,
www.cptech.org

Consumer Project on Technology
1621 Connecticut Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20009 USA
Tel.:  +1.202.332.2670, Ext 16 Fax: +1.202.332.2673

Consumer Project on Technology
1 Route des  Morillons, CP 2100, 1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 791 6727

Consumer Project on Technology
24 Highbury Crescent, London, N5 1RX, UK
Tel: +44(0)207 226 6663 ex 252 Fax: +44(0)207 354 0607