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December 2000
 
12/04/2000 -  Under Secretary of Commerce to Host Online Dialogue
 
November 2000
 
11/30/2000 -  United States Patent and Trademark Office and National Inventors Hall of Fame Unveil a New Museum Exhibit Tested By Time: Ten Inventions That Get The Job Done
11/27/2000 -  USPTO Will Begin Publishing Patent Applications
11/16/2000 -  USPTO Participates In Mississippi Inventor's Conference
11/16/2000 -  USPTO Hosts Saturday Seminar For Independent Inventors
11/14/2000 -  USPTO Kicks Off Kids And Chemistry Program
11/06/2000 -  USPTO Web Database Now Includes All Patents Dating from 1790
11/02/2000 -  GOVEXEC.COM Names USPTO Web Site as one of the "Best Feds on the Web"
 
October 2000
 
10/30/2000 -  USPTO Hosts International IP Officials
10/27/2000 -  Doors Open to Electronic Patent Filing
10/24/2000 -  USPTO Has New Deputy Commissioner for Trademark Policy and Projects
10/16/2000 -  Nobel Prize Winners For Chemistry Hold Patents For Award Winning Work
10/12/2000 -  USPTO Extends Workshops on American Inventors Protection Act and Electronic Commerce
10/12/2000 -  USPTO Receives Government Technology Leadership Award For Its Trademark Electronic Application System
10/12/2000 -  USPTO Offers New Quality Of Work Life Initiatives
10/11/2000 -  Nobel Prize Winners For Physics Hold Patents For Award Winning Work
10/03/2000 -  USPTO Has New Deputy Chief Financial Officer And Comptroller
10/02/2000 -  Under Secretary of Commerce to Host Online Dialogue
 
September 2000
 
09/26/2000 -  USPTO Streamlines Patent Application Process
09/26/2000 -  USPTO To Hold Fifth Annual Independent Inventors Conference
09/20/2000 -  USPTO Introduces A New E-Mail Response Message System
09/14/2000 -  USPTO Director Dickinson Encourages Countries in Asia and The Pacific Region to Maintain Strong Intellectual Property Protection Systems to Prosper in Knowledge-Based Economy
09/11/2000 -  Attorney General Janet Reno To Speak Tuesday At USPTO International Intellectual Property Enforcement Symposium
09/05/2000 -  USPTO to Hold International Symposium on Intellectual Property in the Digital Age
 
August 2000
 
08/30/2000 -  USPTO To Hold West Coast Symposiums on Biotechnology and Software Patents
08/22/2000 -  Patent and Trademark Public Advisory Committees to Hold Inaugural Meetings
08/16/2000 -  USPTO Announces Patent Fee Changes
08/02/2000 -  Secretary Mineta to Speak at USPTO's Community Day
08/01/2000 -  USPTO Holds Workshops on American Inventors Protection Act and Electronic Commerce
08/01/2000 -  Under Secretary of Commerce to Host Online Dialogue
 
July 2000
 
07/24/2000 -  USPTO Schedules Roundtable on Software Business Method Patents
07/13/2000 -  Acting Commerce Secretary Robert L. Mallett Names Members to New USPTO Advisory Panels
07/13/2000 -  USPTO Celebrated Signing of Lease for Consolidated Space in Alexandria
 
June 2000
 
06/29/2000 -  USPTO to Hold Roundtable Meeting on Computer Implemented Business Method Patent Initiatives
06/23/2000 -  Under Secretary of Commerce Q. Todd Dickinson Gives Annual State of the PTO Address to ABA Intellectual Property Group
06/23/2000 -  Sixth Annual PTO University Graduation Celebrated Student and Organizational Success
06/15/2000 -  Some Well-Known U.S. Trademarks Celebrate One Hundred Years
06/14/2000 -  USPTO Space Procurement Upheld by U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit
06/07/2000 -  USPTO Honored by Computerworld and Smithsonian for Internet Patent Database
06/05/2000 -  USPTO Accepts Credit Card Payments
06/01/2000 -  USPTO Wins Environmental Lawsuit; GSA Awards Lease for USPTO Space Consolidation Project
 
May 2000
 
05/31/2000 -  Under Secretary of Commerce to Host Online Dialogue
05/19/2000 -  USPTO Updates Its Award-Winning Kids' Pages
05/18/2000 -  USPTO to Co-Sponsor Camp Invention
05/18/2000 -  Undersecretary of Commerce to Deliver Commencement Address at Franklin Pierce Law Center
05/08/2000 -  USPTO Marks 15th Anniversary of Visiting Scholars Program
05/05/2000 -  USPTO Co-Sponsors Walkathon To Benefit Alive! Child Development Center
05/02/2000 -  USPTO Named Semifinalist In Harvard Government Innovations Award Program
 
April 2000
 
04/19/2000 -  Public Comments on Guidelines for Determining Utility of Gene-Related Patents Released by USPTO
04/05/2000 -  Under Secretary of Commerce to Host Online Dialogue
 
March 2000
 
03/31/2000 -  PTO Celebrates Becoming A Performance-Based Organization
03/30/2000 -  Under Secretary Of Commerce For Intellectual Property Dickinson Unveils New Initiative Focusing On Business Method Patents
03/29/2000 -  PTO Becomes Performance-Based Organization
03/28/2000 -  United States Patent and Trademark Office to Hold Conference on State Sovereign Immunity and Intellectual Property
03/21/2000 -  PTO To Host World's Greatest Kid Inventor
03/16/2000 -  US Patent Policy Unaffected by US/UK Statement on Human Gene Sequence Data
03/02/2000 -  1999 Patent Statistics Announced
03/01/2000 -  PTO Offers Training Materials For Interim Written Description And Utility Guidelines
 
February 2000
 
02/29/2000 -  PTO Introduces New Trademark Electronic Search System
02/18/2000 -  PTO Names New Director For Independent Inventor Office
02/17/2000 -  Patent Commissioner To Participate In Innovacon 2000
02/08/2000 -  PTO Commissioner To Host Online Dialog
02/07/2000 -  PTO Commissioner To Address Alexandria Rotary Club
02/04/2000 -  PTO Customers Can Now Use Internet For Financial Transactions
02/01/2000 -  PTO to Publish Complaints Concerning Invention Promotion Firms
 
January 2000
 
01/31/2000 -  PTO Commissioner To Address National Academies Seminar On Intellectual Property
01/31/2000 -  Patent And Trademark Office Introduces Online Magazine
01/13/2000 -  PTO Announces First Patent and Trademark of New Millennium
01/12/2000 -  Department Of Commerce Introduces New E-Commerce Initiative - First Patent Application Filed Using the Internet
01/11/2000 -  IBM Repeats at Top of PTO's Annual List of 10 Organizations Receiving Most Patents
01/11/2000 -  PTO Commissioner to Participate in ABC News Live Interactive Webcast
01/10/2000 -  President Clinton Names Nicholas P. Godici to Serve as Assistant Commissioner of Patents at U.S. Department of Commerce

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