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the number of highly-qualified patent and trademark
attorneys practicing before the USPTO and in Federal
Court. In keeping with the AIA, schools are required
to provide pro bono legal services to independent
inventors and small businesses.
Providing Domestic Education Outreach and
Capacity Building
The USPTO, through the Global IP Academy (GIPA) in
the Office of Policy and External Affairs, provides IP
educational opportunities to U.S. and foreign government
officials, domestic small and medium-sized
enterprises (SMEs), universities, foreign officials, and
the public. The GIPA provides expertise on administration,
protection, and enforcement in all areas of
domestic and international IP. In FY 2012, the GIPA
conducted 140 training programs for foreign government
officials, reaching an audience of more than
9,217 foreign government officials from 130 countries.
The GIPA also conducted 40 programs targeted for
FIGURE 23 Educational Programs
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS
U.S. SMEs, with an audience of more than 4,227
people for those programs [These numbers reflect
data through 9/30/2012 in Q4 of FY 2012]. Domestic
programs include outreach to Native American
tribes, educational programs on IP awareness, and
China Road Shows providing IP information to SMEs
seeking to do business in China. The GIPA has
increasingly engaged members of the judiciary
within the U.S. and abroad. Additionally, the GIPA
partners to develop and deliver educational
outreach programs with other areas of the United
States Government (USG), in particular the Small
Business Administration, bureaus of the Department
of Commerce including the Minority Business Development
Agency, and the U.S. Export Assistance
Centers of the U.S. Commercial Service.
The GIPA is using technology to make training
programs more efficient and to expand the reach of
those programs. For example, the GIPA hosts a
database of all training and capacity building activities
conducted by U.S. government agencies.
In addition, the GIPA hosts e-learning modules on its
website. Those modules, which are available in
seven different languages, have received over
20,000 hits since they were first posted on the site in
2010. The GIPA also is using webinars to provide
“train-the-trainer” and small business outreach.
The efforts by the USPTO will facilitate the export
capabilities of domestic industry and SMEs, and
ensure their competitiveness around the world.
As illustrated in Figures 23, 24, and 25, these charts
provide the number of programs, officials, and
countries trained by the GIPA.
FIGURE 24 Number of Attendees Trained FIGURE 25 Cumulative Number of Countries Trained
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