- Shortly after last year’s seminar, USPTO Commissioner for Patents visited Rice on April 5th; PTRC partnered with departments to bring her to Houston, recruit panelists for events, and helped with event planning.
- Co-hosted with the Office of Technology Transfer a Friday happy hour for the Graduate Student Association featuring university IP resources.
- PTRC rep was a guest speaker at Lamar University Innovation Day and gave an overview of how to search for patents and answered lots of questions.
- Patent library collection was weeded and refreshed, and now has updated books in both paper and online.
Photos of display featuring old patent research materials, now all superseded by online platforms
