USPTO Opens First Satellite Office in Detroit

On Friday, July 13th, the USPTO opened its first satellite Patent Office in Detroit, Michigan. With the opening of this office, the USPTO hopes to speed up the overall patent process and will also create about 120 jobs in the first year alone. In addition to Detroit, regional offices will be opened in or around Dallas, Texas, Denver, Colorado, and Silicon Valley, California.  The USPTO is still in the process of finding specific locations for the additional satellite offices which is a direct result of the establishment of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act of 2011 (AIA).  The Act requires the USPTO to establish satellite locations to modernize the U.S. patent system by September 2014.

Congratulations to the USPTO on this achievement!

-The Harbor Consulting Team

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Should Massachusetts Get a USPTO Satellite Office?

On July 13th the first USPTO satellite office will open in Detroit.  Two more will follow in the next two years.  While the locations are currently unknown the announcements are expected to come soon.

According to the Boston Patent Law Associations (BPLA) comments to the USPTO, the best spot in our country for a USPTO satellite office would be in our own backyard, Boston, MA.  Based on the number of reasons BPLA was able to outline in its comments to the USPTO, it’s a wonder why a satellite office isn’t located in Boston already.  Numbers examined by BPLA indicated Boston and New England lead the country in:
•    Highest innovation density
•    Highest employee retention
•    Highest graduation rate in advanced science and engineering degrees
•    Highest concentration and diversity of science and engineering employment
•    Per capita patents granted by the USPTO to private companies in 2009

After reading this, you may be thinking the same thing I am: Why wouldn’t the USPTO open a satellite office in Boston?  Hopefully, in the not so distant future we won’t be asking that question.

Read the full article here.

-The Harbor Consulting Team

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