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16 February 2021Influential Women in IPMuireann Bolger

‘Extend patent bar to design practitioners’, say academics

The US Patent and Trademark Office has been urged to extend patent bar eligibility to design patent practitioners to increase the number of women patent attorneys and inventors.

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