New Innovation Center Aims to Unleash Invention, Trademark Data
New Innovation Center Aims to Unleash Invention, Trademark Data
WASHINGTON DC- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's digital services team within the agency's Innovation Lab has unveiled the Developer Hub, a portal with charts and graphs enabling users to extract information from agency data troves and find trends related to inventions and brands. When the site launched this spring, its page views quickly surpassed those of the agency's other online dashboards. "It lowers the barrier to entry to anyone to understand patents and trademarks," says Mr. Thomas Beach, senior adviser in the patent office's Office of the Undersecretary and Director. "You don't have to be an expert in how patents are made." He also says the portal should help inventors file higher quality patent applications while curbing the impact of so-called patent trolls, and demonstrates why patents and trademarks matter in the larger economy. The hub has a community platform that enables users to share ways they are using the agency's data, as well as a GitHub page that offers a tutorial about how to use the data from the site. "The vision on that was to really provide a platform—almost like a train station where every train can come and go, new trains, new ideas, share something, learn something, take a journey and come back," Beach says.
Source: From the article of the same title. FedScoop (06/23/16) Wyckoff, Whitney Blair