The USPTO is using me...
The USPTO is using my services to review their new Continuing Education Program ("CEP") pilot. They are considering a new mandatory requirement for patent practitioners to have something similar to state-based CLE, and I am reviewing their pilot programs. They've got some good stuff (some of it needs some changes...).
At this point, patent practitioners in the US have to pass the patent bar, and then they're let loose on the world as registered attorneys or agents forevermore. A mandatory CEP requirement would make sure that practitioners stay at least minimally up to date. Patent law changes ever-more quickly in the US, so it is therefore in the inventor's best interest to have a mandatory CEP requirement in place. I'm proud to be one of the approximately 850 (out of over 60,000 patent practitioners total) evaluators for this important new program.
Nancy
THE INFORMATION PRESENTED HERE IS GENERAL IN NATURE AND IS NOT INTENDED, NOR SHOULD IT BE CONSTRUED, AS LEGAL ADVICE. THIS POSTING DOES NOT CREATE ANY ATTORNEY-CLIENT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN US. FOR SPECIFIC ADVICE ABOUT YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION, CONSULT YOUR ATTORNEY.
At this point, patent practitioners in the US have to pass the patent bar, and then they're let loose on the world as registered attorneys or agents forevermore. A mandatory CEP requirement would make sure that practitioners stay at least minimally up to date. Patent law changes ever-more quickly in the US, so it is therefore in the inventor's best interest to have a mandatory CEP requirement in place. I'm proud to be one of the approximately 850 (out of over 60,000 patent practitioners total) evaluators for this important new program.
Nancy
THE INFORMATION PRESENTED HERE IS GENERAL IN NATURE AND IS NOT INTENDED, NOR SHOULD IT BE CONSTRUED, AS LEGAL ADVICE. THIS POSTING DOES NOT CREATE ANY ATTORNEY-CLIENT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN US. FOR SPECIFIC ADVICE ABOUT YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION, CONSULT YOUR ATTORNEY.
posted by Nancy Delain at
10:48 AM
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