Patent, Trademark & Copyright : Law Office of Kloss, Stenger & LoTempio

The United States Parent and Trademark Office (USPTO) just launched the beta version of a USPTO Data Visualization Center in a web page that looks like a bunch of speedometers on dashboard. This patent dashboard tool will provide statistical measures to track patent pendency.

The new dashboard, which will be updated monthly, will also be used internally by the USPTO to analyze and improve our examination process and to track the effectiveness of our improvement efforts. We intend to further refine the dashboard and welcome your input about ways we can improve it. A dedicated mailbox has been set up for your comments and we intend to monitor your feedback carefully.

The patents dashboard provides more refined pendency information than was previously available, as well as other critical performance indicators such as:

• the number of applications in the backlog;
• production;
• actions per disposal;
• and USPTO staffing levels.

The dashboard introduces six new measures of pendency designed to give a better overall picture of the contributions of different parts of the examination process to application pendency.

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The official United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Facebook page promises to deliver the latest USPTO news, photos and videos.

Through Facebook the USPTO will directly connect with the public and the intellectual property community.

According to David Kappos the USPTO’s Facebook page is meant provide

“a place where users can tell US what YOU think. Users are encouraged to comment on our posts and tell us what you “like” and “dislike” about to the USPTO."

The Invent Blog reported that under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos said:

“Technology has profoundly impacted the way we all consume information and communicate with one another... “I’m confident our Facebook presence will complement the USPTO Web site as a means of communicating and connecting with the public and our stakeholders in the intellectual property community.

With more than 400 million people on Facebook, we knew it was an important place for us to be.”

USPTO Director David Kappos welcomes Facebook users with the following message:

Welcome to the USPTO’s page on Facebook! We're excited to be launching this forum to communicate with you and share the latest news from the USPTO. We know thousands of innovators, members of the intellectual property practice community, and USPTO employees are active on Facebook, so we’re pleased to be able to bring information and updates to you here...

Check back here daily, as we will be providing regular updates including press releases and other news, details on upcoming events, speeches, updates from my blog, photos, video, fun facts and more. Just like checking your Facebook page, we hope visiting our page will become part of your daily routine.

The USPTO’s Facebook page is a supplemental page to the official USPTO web page. It makes you think, doesn't everyone need a Facebook page? I enjoy connecting  with over 1000 long lost friends from the good ole days at my  Vincent LoTempio facebook page and I launched a page for my law office at Kloss, Stenger & LoTempio, although  I have to admit there has not been much action there. But I love this social networking. Everyone is getting involved.

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New inventors are often looking for a short overview of the patent process. Ordinarily sending inventors to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) web site is like sending someone into a great quagmire.

But there is a nice flow cart with links directing viewers to pertinent information regarding each step of the process for getting a utility patent on the USPTO web page.

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