New USPTO Patent Grant Cover

Today we received a patent document (certificate) for one of our clients with a new cover. As it turns out, this is only the second time the cover sheet has been changed in the last 100 years — in honor of issuing 10 million patents. Releasing the cover, USPTO Director Andrei Iancu stated: “American ingenuity has been at the forefront of every major technological revolution of the past two centuries, from steam engines to flight, and from the biotechnology revolution to the information revolution.” “This new patent design not only celebrates how far we’ve come and the new frontiers we have yet to explore, it also represents the cornerstone and the currency of an American intellectual property system that has given so much to the world and will continue to do so for ages to come.”

 

Given that the previous cover had been in use for the last 30 years, this indeed is a refreshing change.