Per the press release:
USPTO Launches Page on Facebook
Agency’s profile will deliver the latest news, photos and videos from the USPTO
Washington – The Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today launched its official page on Facebook. Intended to engage the public and the intellectual property community directly and provide real-time information, the USPTO’s page on Facebook will offer a series of regular updates from the Agency on a range of issues, and gives Facebook users the chance to comment on, discuss, and offer feedback to the USPTO about announcements and initiatives. The page can be found at www.facebook.com/uspto.gov.
“Technology has profoundly impacted the way we all consume information and communicate with one another,” said Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos. “I’m confident our Facebook presence will complement the USPTO Web site as a means of communicating and connecting with the public and our stakeholders in the intellectual property community. With more than 400 million people on Facebook, we knew it was an important place for us to be.”
The USPTO’s page on Facebook will not replace the Agency’s Web site (www.uspto.gov) as the official source of USPTO information. Rather, the Facebook page will provide a new channel for the public to connect with the USPTO.
In addition to communicating directly with the USPTO, Facebook users can expect to see an array of content and information, including press releases, posts from Director Kappos’ “Director’s Forum” blog, event information, photos and video.
classified in class 530, subclass 356.
II. Claim 13, drawn to a method of wound healing, classified in class 424,
subclass 7S.06.
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Of what conceivable value, that isnt already on uspto.gov? Now I have to look TWO places to make sure I get all the information?
The PTO is spending money on this when it hasn’t -
- put in place a process to comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act, even after being scolded by the Office of Management and Budget for having inadequate processes?
- lifted a finger to implement instructions from the President, the Bulletin on Agency Good Guidance Practices?
Talk about mis-prioritization…
Though I’ll reserve judgment on the utility and necessity of a USPTO Facebook page, I will say that I appreciate this gesture by Kappos & co., even if it is largely symbolic. On Kappos’s watch, the USPTO has made a series of good PR moves. As with the others, this latest effort demonstrates an effort at reaching out to the general public, a laudable desire to solicit input, and an awareness of contemporary culture beyond the rarefied air of the USPTO offices. Kappos may actually succeed in making patent law respectable again in the eyes of the public.