The Biotechnology
and Chemical/Pharmaceutical Customer Partnerships are designed to be a
forum to share ideas, experiences, and insights between individual users
and the USPTO. The USPTO does not intend to use these customer partnership
groups to arrive at any consensus.
In the past we have
held two separate customer partnership meetings, one in the morning and
another in the afternoon. However, to avoid redundancy, we have reorganized
the two partnerships into a single, full day event – the Biotechnology/Chemical/Pharmaceutical
(BCP) Customer
Partnership.
In the morning, we will focus on Office level issues of general interest
to all practitioners, such as electronic filing, pre-examination application
processing, the petition process, appeals, and others. In the afternoon,
we will have four 20 - 40 minute presentations of a more technical nature.
We will also be preparing more precise agendas so that those wishing to
attend for only specific topics may be assured of the time of the presentation.
The next meeting of
the BCP Customer Partnership is scheduled for Tuesday August 7, 2001
from 9:00 AM. to 4:00 PM in Crystal Square 4 Suite 700 located at
1745 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, Virginia. The agenda for this
meeting is attached below.
Please contact Cecilia
Tsang (cecilia.tsang@uspto.gov)
at 703-308-0254 or by fax at 703-305-7939, Brian Stanton (brian.stanton@uspto.gov)
at 703-308-2801, or Sharlamar Taliaferro at 703-306-4094 or by fax 703-305-8002
to confirm your attendance. You may also respond via e-mail to TC1600BCP@uspto.gov.
We look forward to
seeing you on the 7th.
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