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The 2024 Message from the Program Office is available here.

The 2024 President’s report is available here.

The Business Meeting minutes for 2024 are available here.
To be approved or revised at the Business Meeting in April

The treasurer’s report for 2024 is available here.

Standing Committees

Bylaws Committee
Charge: Review the PTRCA bylaws and recommend language for updates; coordinate with the PTRCA webmaster to ensure that the most recent bylaws are on the website.

Denise Wetzel, University Park, PA, [email protected] (CHAIR)
Hannah Edlund, Houston, TX, [email protected]
Sarah Weiss, College Park, MD, [email protected]

Conferences Committee
Charge: Assists PTRCP representatives with the planning of presentations and programs for local, state, and national Conferences. Continue reading

https://ptrca.org/files/2020%20PTRCA%20Exec%20Council%20Meeting%20Minutes%203-3-20.pdf

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News from the Patent and Trademark Resource Center Program (PTRCP) Office

In the past year, PTRCP has gone through staff changes and has strengthened the support we provide for PTRC outreach. Librarian Tiffany Mair and Administrative Support Assistant Anthony Wilkinson both left PTRCP (Anthony is still with USPTO but in a new position as a Customer Service Specialist). Chris Kitchens retired in May 2018 after many years of service to the USPTO and PTRCP. Continue reading

President’s Report, 2018-2019

Dave Zwicky, West Lafayette, IN

Probably the biggest event of this year was the retirement of Chris Kitchens, Director of the Public Search Services Division and former head of the PTRC Program, from the USPTO on May 25th.  Chris has been an important part of this organization for a long time and, even though her presence continues to be felt, will be much missed.

In other news, Continue reading

Committees 2017-2018

 

Standing Committees

Bylaws Committee
Charge: Review the PTRCA bylaws and recommend language for updates; coordinate with the PTRCA webmaster to ensure that the most recent bylaws are on the website.

Marian Armour-Gemman, Morgantown, WV (Chair)
Jared Hoppenfeld, College Station, TX
Suzanne Reinman, Stillwater, OK
Lisha Li, Atlanta, GA (ex officio)

Conferences Committee
Charge: Coordinate all arrangements necessary for the PTRCA portions of the Annual PTRC Training Seminar and PTRCA Conference. Continue reading

News from the Patent and Trademark Resource Center Program (PTRCP)

It is hard to envision a more exhilarating time to be involved in intellectual property.  Interest in Design Patents and Trade Dress has increased markedly in recent years, as anyone who searches the Web for “increasing importance of design patents” or “increasing importance of trade dress” can quickly verify.  Assisting your PTRC customers to locate relevant intellectual property information has never been as challenging or as important as it is today.  Continue reading