USPTO Roadshow On Proposed Patent Rule Changes

In an upcoming series of Town Hall Meetings, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will provide background information regarding proposed patent rule changes relating to the examination of claims, continuing applications, requests for continued examination, and applications containing patentably indistinct claims.

The Town Hall Meetings are for patent attorneys, patent agents, independent inventors and members of the small business community. The first Town Hall Meeting will be held February 1, 2006, in Chicago, at the downtown campus of Northwestern University, in the Arthur Rubloff Building Thorne Auditorium, from 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Details regarding future Town Hall Meetings in California, Texas and Washington, D.C., will be posted on the USPTO Web site www.uspto.gov at a later date.

Registration is free and CLE credit "may be available."For registration information, please go to http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/townhall.htm or call 571-272-8850.