2. What Small Businesses Need to Know About Intellectual Property (IP)
Molly Kocialski
Regional Director
USPTO
Rocky Mountain Regional Office

3. IP and the U.S. Economy 38.2% $6.6 trillion 27.9M
IP Intensive Jobs (2014)
38.2%
IP Intensive Industries share of Total US GDP (2014)
$6.6 trillion
Value Add of IP-intensive Industries (2014)
$1,312/week
(46% higher)
Avg. weekly wages for workers in IP-intensive industries
$115.2 billion
Revenue specific to the licensing of IP rights totaled (2012)
28 Industries
Deriving revenues from licensing

4. IP and the Colorado Economy
951, 435
IP Related Jobs
$6.6B
Annual R&D investment
$96.3B
Sales related to IP
$15,076/year
(30.9%)
Higher wages for Direct IP workers ($63821) v. Non-IP workers ($48,745)
$7.1B
IP Manufacturing Exports
$58,370
(66%)
Higher Value Add Per Direct IP Worker ($146,312) v. Private Sector Worker ($87,942)
Data released by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global IP Center study entitled Employing Innovation Across America (2015)

5. The USPTO in FY16 12,725 Employees Patents Trademarks
8,351 Patent Examiners
570 Trademark Examining Attorneys
394 Patent Trial and Appeal Board Team
71 Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Team
Patents
650,411 Patent Applications Filed
334,107 Patents Issued
Trademarks
530,270 Trademark Applications
227,407 Certificates of Registration
USPTO Headquarters in Alexandria, VA
All from FY16 PAR. (Performance and Accountability Report)
Patent stats
Patent, utility, plant, and reissue filings increased more the 5% FY16
Continues the trend of continued increases of US patent applications
50% increase in the number of applications received 10 years ago
Patent grants
Double the amount that we issued 10 years ago (2006 = 183,187)
Unexamined patent application inventory decreased by 3% (peak in 2008)
Total pendency = 25.3 FY16 (26.6 FY15)
PTAB Stats
275 PTAB judges
Post grant proceedings: petitions received FY16 (total = 6000+)
Ex Parte Appeals = 13,000+
80% of PTAB decisions are affirmed by the US Court of Appeals
TTAB
24 judges
International
Brazil PPH – launched in January 2016 (36 PPH petitions filed; 10 issued patents)
Argentina PPH – launched in March 2016

6. USPTO Offices Detroit Operational since July 2012 Denver
Byron G. Rogers Federal Building
Operational since July 2014
Silicon Valley
San Jose City Hall Building
Operational since October 2015
Dallas
Terminal Annex Federal Building
Operational since November 2015
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) historically operated from one central headquarters located first in Washington D.C, and now in Alexandria, Virginia.
With the signing of the America Invents Act into law by President Obama in 2011, the USPTO moved forward with the establishment of at least three satellite offices. The first of the new offices opened in Detroit in 2012.

7. Rocky Mountain Regional Office
Byron G. Rogers Federal Building – 1961 Stout Street, Denver, CO 80294
Employees:
55 Patent Examiners
12 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) judges
18 Management/Staff
Office Hours: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Services
Public Search Facility
Available from 9:00am - 4:30 pm
Examiner Interview Room
Hearing Room
Public Meeting Space
Our region boasts a mere 825,000 square miles of territory; 33 Native American reservations, and the Rocky Mountain region boasts 6 out the top 10 states for Startups, as identified by the Kauffman Foundation in 2015
We were fully staffed in 2016 but, as our examiners became qualified for hoteling programs, they have elected to hotel in many instances. Thus, the Denver office will be looking to hire and train a new class of examiners; hopefully, in fiscal year 2017 but much depends on the directives of the Trump administration.

8. Highest # of Granted Patents by Technology
(Colorado: )

9. Comparison # of Granted Patents in Colorado over time

10. Highlighted Upcoming Events for 2017 at RM USPTO
Oct 10, Info Session for Recruitment
Oct 19, International and Domestic Trademark Practice Before the USPTO
Nov 14-16, STEPP Training
Nov 17, IP for Beginners – Part I
Dec 8, IP for Beginners – Part II
Dec 15, IP for Beginners – Part III

11. Thank You RockyMountain@uspto.gov
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