United States Patent and Trademark Office

-An Agency of the Department of Commerce

 

As part of its Patents Education Curriculum, the Silicon Valley USPTO will host a two-hour workshop on patent searching. Learn to search databases used by patent examiners on the USPTO Universal Public Workstations (UPWS) which are publicly available at the regional office.  A supervisory patent examiner will instruct the attendees on the following:

• What are the benefits of searching?
• Where can you search?
• When should you search?
• How do you search using USPTO search tools?

This session is designed for inventors, entrepreneurs, and those who have a beginning to intermediate knowledge of patents and would like to learn more about patent searching.

 

If you do not already have a UPWS login account which are valid for one year, please arrive approximately 30 minutes before the workshop to register for one.  Most of the class will be lecture; however, you will have the opportunity to practice on our Universal Public Workstations during the last 30-45 minutes. We have limited availability for the workstations so you may want to allow extra time after class to use a workstation.

 

 This event and UPWS accounts are free and open to the public. Space is limited.  Please register here by July 24, 2017 (link is external).

Please note that the Silicon Valley USPTO is a federal facility.  Attendees are required to present a valid form of government-issued identification (driver license or passport) and may be subject to screening to gain access.

 

 

Event Summary:

July 25, 2017

 

12:00 PM PT - 2:00 PM PT

Silicon Valley USPTO

26 S. Fourth Street

San Jose , CA 95113

 

Silicon Valley Regional Office