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- In collaboration with the Bayamón PTRC and the USPTO Eastern Regional Outreach Office, we offered workshops and orientations about Intellectual Property in Spanish language in Puerto Rico.
- Searching for solutions for inventors and entrepreneurs on the island that do not have computers or internet access, the UPR Library system in their eleven branches collaborated with the PTRCs to be the host for inventors that need assistance with technology access.
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- We continue to participate in the Strive305 Mogul Maker Series. These are all-day in-person workshops for entrepreneurs at different branch locations. Every event has a large audience. This has been a cooperative effort between financial institutions, nonprofits, local chamber of commerce, small businesses, and government agencies. Also, a great opportunity to share info about patents and trademarks.
- We attend the First Friday’s Business Breakfast Series at Oasis, a local community incubator which provides free workshops once a month to small business owners.
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- Classes with Horticulture, Law, Business, and Agricultural Economics
- Lectured to an Entrepreneurship Class with 300 students x2 sections (600 total)
- IP Workshops held online
- In the last several years, half of consultations have been in-person and half on Zoom
- Attend pitch contest sponsored by our LaunchLab
- Still involved with the NSF I-Corps program & WV Entrepreneurship Ecosystem
- Hired Thomas Caswell as new Associate Dean for Academic Engagement in fall 2022
- After 1 ½ years under construction, the library opened its renovated 3rd floor at the end of February 2023. Features include:
- 500+ new seating options, including height-adjustable and standing desks
- 70 desktop computer stations
- 30 group study rooms (pictured) with various seating capacities and in-room technology.
- The librarians in two public service departments (Research and Information &
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- In December, we put together a display on the life of Maine inventor Chester Greenwood, who had four patents in his lifetime. The most famous of these was for his design revolutionizing earmuffs. He was a lifelong engineer, innovator, and a pillar of the community. We also put up a research guide on Greenwood for our library’s website (right).
- We continue to provide support to patrons through phone, email, and virtual consultations, and share information about the PTRC at in-person and virtual events.
- We partnered with USPTO, PTRCP, Arizona State University, and local experts to present two, free virtual events in September 2022.
- We partnered with the USPTO Silicon Valley Regional Office to present two virtual programs for the MBDA Export Center in Fall 2022.
- A new staff member was trained as a PTRC back-up representative.
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- In August 2022, NC State PTRC Representative Greg Tourino partnered with BLINC (Business Librarianship in NC) and STEM –LINC (STEM Librarianship in NC), two roundtables under the North Carolina Library Association, to provide a webinar focused on patent basics, from the patent process to classification to tips for searching highlighting the new web-based Patent Public Search along with resources available at the NCSU PTRC.
- The Carlson Center for Intellectual Property is housed in the Business Insight Center at the Central Library of Rochester, New York and Monroe County.
- Recently, Melissa Cobo became Full-Time, which brings our FTE to a whopping 3! At times this is very challenging. However, our model of librarianship is highly different than your traditional Reference Desk. We are a Research Division. We still have a reference desk, but usually no one is staffing it because we are either out in the community talking about our services,
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- Our new dedicated PTRC Librarian Emily Mackensen started on March 6, 2023 and is excited to jump into the world of Patents and Trademarks.
- I was a guest speaker on patents and trademarks for a UW Information School course on government publications. Lots of great questions and conversations during the session!
- I co-taught an instruction session on patents for chemical engineering seniors in the Chem E Industrial Capstone.
- The Engineering Library (right) hosted 2 groups of high school students researching engineering and technology topics for school assignments and projects, including students involved in the Central Sound Regional Science and Engineering Fair and students developing inventions and products for STEM competitions.
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- The Smithtown Library PTRC helped over 150 inventors and entrepreneurs with their intellectual property questions and search demonstrations
- Our first international patron visited us via Google Meet. She is an American student teaching English in Moldova, Europe. She started a travel business and was interested intrademarking. Our TESS demo took place at 2:15pm local time and 9:15pm in Moldova, she was very pleased
- Yanni Mamstsaderisshared his journey from visiting The Smithtown Library PTRC to learn about patent searching and trademarks years ago to becoming the founder &
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- Utah Tech University was officially designated as a PTRC on October 11, 2022, with David Zielke and John Burns as PTRC Representatives. UT immediately updated its Patent and Trademark Research Guide to reflect our new status.
- On October 20 & 21, 2022, the UT library hosted the “How to Best Utilize Intellectual Property (IP) for Your Business” workshop, presented by Molly Kocialski and her colleagues from the Rocky Mountain Regional USPTO Office.
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- Provided individual help to 18 people online, 42 visitors, and 44 callers
- Continued to conduct virtual programs with the St. Louis Small Business Development Center for small business owners and those thinking of starting a business
- Planned new in-person programs for 2023 with the SBDC (some of which will have happened before Seminar 2023)
- Upcoming in October: a collaboration with the St. Louis County Library on a small business and nonprofit conference,
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- Georgia Southern University Libraries officially designated as PTRC Oct. 2022
- Official PTRC Grand Opening is planned for this autumn 2023
- Henderson Library at the Statesboro campus in Statesboro, GA
- Lane Library at the Armstrong campus in Savannah, GA
- John Schlipp previously worked as a PTRC representative at Highland Heights, KY
- Our PTRC partners with university’s Business Innovation Group (BIG)
- BIG serves as the business and economic development outreach arm for the university
- BIG’s inaugural Innovation luncheon for the campus and community served as our PTRC pre-Grand Opening at the Engineering Research Building on the Statesboro campus on January 27th
- Thirty attendees were present including virtual guest speakers Rob Berry and Tom Turner from the PTRCP office,
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- The OSU Stillwater PTRC was established in 1956 and is housed with the Government Documents Department, a regional depository for the FDLP
- “Using Patents for Research” is part of the Fast Start and Data Bytes workshop series on campus
- Presented trademark workshops for the OSU Food and Agricultural Products Center
- Worked with the Director of Outreach Programs, Riata Center for Entrepreneurship on campus to provide one-on-one assistance to students in the Startup Experience program
- Contributing a session on IP to the Tulsa City County Library’s Grow Academy,
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